Wednesday wildlife – a selection of welcome and not-so-welcome sights
This week’s photographic selection from Ness of Brodgar excavation director Nick Card.
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Monthly Archive: September 2021
Geophysics suggests the Ness may not be as unique as once thought
When the Ness of Brodgar was discovered in 2003, it was without parallel. But we now suspect it might not be. Read more
Wednesday wildlife is back…
After its summer break, we’re back with a new series of Wednesday Wildlife – weekly gallery of photographs taken around the Ness of Brodgar by excavation director Nick Card.
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Touching our ancestors – the Ness and the SPOTtimespotTIME artwork
By Elaine Robinson
Having had a lifelong interest in archaeology, imagine my excitement from the point of view as an artist who has been collecting fingerprints since 2015, when my… Read more
Enclosing the midden mound – Iron Age activity at the Ness excavation site
The Ness complex was abandoned at the end of the Neolithic, around 2500BC, but at least one section was brought back into use, some 1,800 years later, in the Iron Age. Read more
Video – ‘Why Rocks?’
Orkney International Science Festival talk by Dr Martha Johnson, highlighting the Ness of Brodgar rocks that don’t fit the local geology, and showing clues to their origins. Read more
Video – ‘The Ness in Rock and Stone’
Today's Orkney International Science Festival talk featuring Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card, Dr Ann Clark and Dr Antonia Thomas of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. Read more
