2024’s top finds – incised stone slab from Structure Twenty
Another beautiful example of an incised stone slab, this time from Structure Ten's predecessor. Read more
Monthly Archive: December 2024
Ness director a keynote speaker at Current Archaeology Live! conference
Site director Nick Card is the keynote speaker at the 2025 Current Archaeology Live! conference in London. Read more
2024’s top finds – worked bone
Soil acidity at the Ness means worked bone and bone tools are something of a rarity. But 2024 saw four well-preserved examples emerge. Read more
2024’s top finds – the decorated clay cylinder from Structure Twenty
The remarkable, but enigmatic, object found in Structure Twenty, underneath Structure Ten. Read more
2024’s top finds – child’s tooth from a stone box in Structure Thirty-Four
Another of the season's most surprising finds – a child’s milk tooth from one of the orthostatic boxes in Structure Thirty-Four. Read more
2024’s top finds – another two of Ceiridwen’s decorated stones
Another two of the five decorated stones found by Ceiridwen in and around Structure Seventeen in 2024. Read more
Video: The dead of winter – Maeshowe and the solstice
Today, Saturday, December 21, is the winter solstice - a day inextricably linked to Maeshowe in Stenness. Read more
The centre of their world – a place where heaven, earth and people met
By natural coincidence the Ness of Brodgar peninsula roughly lines up with a solstice axis. Is this one of the reason's the area became a magnet to people for millennia? Read more
Structure Five updated and introducing its predecessor, Structure Forty-One!
Structure Five's entry has been updated to include this season's findings - including details of its timber predecessor, Structure Forty-One. Read more
2024’s top finds – the stone axe that once rivalled our finest
The poorly preserved remains of a once-beautiful polished stone axe were described as one of the Ness' greatest 'might-have-beens'. Read more
Counting cattle – Ness paper presented at Oxford conference
Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford. Read more
2024’s top finds – Ceiridwen’s pair of decorated stones
To find one decorated stone at the Ness was always a notable occasion - imagine finding two, which is what Ceiridwen did this season. Read more
Structure Twenty-Eight updated
Structure Twenty-Eight's entry has been fully updated and rewritten. Read more
The ‘Lesser Wall’ in 3d – a new model compiled from our photo archive
We jump back 14 years for this "new" model of Trench R and the "Lesser Wall of Brodgar". Read more
