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Site director Nick Card packs away the 'Open to the Public' sign at the end of 2019. We desperately need your help to make sure it sees the light of day again.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Future of Ness excavation under threat – can you help?

The Covid-19 cancellation of the 2020 Ness of Brodgar excavation, and related fundraising activity, is having a serious impact on Ness funds. Contrary to what many people think, the Ness… Read more

News

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

A brief introduction to Orkney’s prehistory

At the Ness of Brodgar excavation site we have pieced together a biography that spans millennia – from traces of Mesolithic activity to the site’s Neolithic heyday, through to the… Read more

News

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Archaeological review of 2019 released

A summary of last season’s work at the Ness is among the many articles featured in the new 2020 Orkney Archaeology Society annual review. The book, which is free to… Read more

News

Monday, April 6, 2020

Appeal for old photos of the Brodgar area

Do you have any old photos of the Ness of Brodgar you’d care to share with us? We are always on the look out for early photos of the Ness… Read more

News

Friday, March 20, 2020

Ness 2020 excavation cancelled

We are very sorry to announce that due to the present COVID-19 situation and uncertainties surrounding this, all excavation and fieldwork at the Ness of Brodgar this summer has been… Read more

Artefacts / Excavation / News

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Debitage confirms pitchstone knapping in Structure Eight

With Travis, it is not enough to find just one piece of pitchstone – within hours of finding the rather nice blade yesterday, he appeared clutching a finds bag from… Read more

Artefacts / Excavation / News

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Another pitchstone fragment from the Ness

Another flake of Arran pitchstone has turned up during the analysis of soil samples from Structure Eight. Pitchstone is a volcanic glass, similar to obsidian, and its nearest source is… Read more

The recipients of the 2019 Shanghai in China in December.

News / Video

Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Video – Ness presentation at Shanghai awards ceremony

In November 2019, the Ness of Brodgar excavation project was selected for a 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Award. In December, site director Nick Card was flown to Shanghai,… Read more

Sam hard at work taking his 'button' samples from one of the Structure Eight hearths.

News

Friday, January 17, 2020

PhD success for Ness regular

Huge congratulations to Sam Harris, a regular at the Ness over the last few years, who has just been granted his PhD from Bradford University. Sam’s HES-funded thesis Developing Archaeomagnetic… Read more

Excavation / News

Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Coloured pottery at the Ness – new paper published

Over the last few seasons we have discovered many sherds of pottery that exhibit colour. The Ness is one of the very few sites in the UK where this has… Read more

News

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Ness success acknowledged in Scottish Parliament

The Ness of Brodgar has been congratulated in the Scottish Parliament for its success in the 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Awards. The motion (detailed below) was tabled by… Read more

News

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Shanghai award for the Ness of Brodgar

The Ness of Brodgar has been selected for a 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Award. Having heard we had been nominated a few weeks ago, we have just learnt… Read more

News

Monday, October 28, 2019

Ness nominated for Shanghai Archaeology Forum award

The Ness of Brodgar has been nominated both by Professor Eszter Bánffy of the German Archaeological Institute, and Dr Michael Boyd of the University of Cambridge for the prestigious 2019… Read more

News

Saturday, October 12, 2019

Library talk to launch new book on Neolithic Orkney

Professor Mark Edmonds will launch his new book, Orcadia – Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney, at an open event in the Stromness Library on Monday evening, October 14.… Read more

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