The recording of last Friday’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, looking at the analysis of sheep and deer teeth from the Ness of Brodgar.The seminar, entitled 5,000 years of waiting… Read more
Day One: Back on site and ready for some serious archaeology.
We’re back! After two, long and frustrating years life has returned to the Ness of Brodgar. Read more
Structures Eleven and Nineteen during the third major phase of activity within Trench P.Around 2900BC, the southern half of Structure Eight had been removed, Structure Ten erected and Structures Twelve… Read more
Structures Twenty-One and Twenty-Nine in relation to the other piered buildings in Trench P.Structure Twenty-OneThe excavated section of Structure Twenty-One, adjacent to Structure One (top).Schematic showing the suspected layout of… Read more
Occupation Phase Two in Trench P, dating from c3100BC. Structure Sixteen is highlighted in red.The heavily truncated remains of Structure Sixteen sit directly to the south of Structure Fourteen in… Read more
The earliest phase of activity so far uncovered in Trench P, showing the location of Structures Thirty-Six and Twenty.Structure TwentyBuilt around 2900BC, Structure Ten was the last major construction in… Read more
In April we shared the exciting news that the fingerprint of a Neolithic potter was found on a ceramic sherd recovered from Trench X.
We can now tell you that… Read more
The earliest phase of activity so far uncovered in Trench P, showing the location of Structures Twenty-Eight, Twenty-Three and Thirty-Three.Structure Twenty-EightThe remains of Structure Twenty-Eight lie beneath its replacement, Structure… Read more
The relationship between Structure Eight (in red) and its two predecessors, Structures Seventeen (left) and Eighteen.The earliest phase of activity so far uncovered in Trench P, showing the location of… Read more