Category: News

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Welcome boost for Ness funds from Highland Park limited edition whisky launch

Ness excavation funds will benefit from the launch of a limited edition bottling of Highland Park whisky. A percentage of the proceeds from sales of the 5,000 bottles of Ness… Read more

Karen Wallis: Working on site - photograph by Joanne Bourne.

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Sunday, May 26, 2019

Ness of Brodgar 2018 sketchbook online

Artist-in-residence Karen Wallis’s 2018 sketchbook of drawings is now online, through the link on her website homepage at www.karenwallis.co.uk. Karen will be back on site this summer for her fourth… Read more

Ceramics / News

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

More coloured pottery from the Ness

The remarkable Neolithic ceremonial site at the Ness of Brodgar has a habit of springing surprises on those who work there. Ceramics specialist Roy Towers from the Archaeology Institute of… Read more

News

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Turning a petrosphere…

Long-time supporters of the Ness Michael and Sara Sinclair have posted a video showing the creation of one of their wooden petropsheres. The auction of one of Michael’s stunning brass petrospheres… Read more

News / Video

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Orkney – The Queen’s Isles

(Since posting this, we’ve learned it is not available to viewers outside Europe. Sorry to our non-European followers) A beautiful documentary on Orkney, from ARTE. The film-makers visited the Ness… Read more

Artefacts / News

Monday, March 25, 2019

Decorated stone fragment recovered from flotation residues

Eagle-eyed Cecily has recovered another beautiful find from the flotation residues. After last week’s tiny bead, this time she has found a small fragment of thin flagstone, unusually decorated on both… Read more

The 2mm carved stone bead from Structure Twenty-Six.

Artefacts / News

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Ness’s smallest bead measures just 2mm in diameter

Sometimes it’s the small things that astound — like this tiny stone bead discovered today. Measuring circa 2mm in diameter, the bead must have taken a steady hand and a… Read more

News

Monday, March 4, 2019

Dig director bound for China

Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card is bound for China next week, to take part in a workshop on heritage management. Nick will travel to Xi’an for the event… Read more

Considering carved stone balls in British Archaeology issue 165. (Pic: Hugo Anderson-Whymark)

Artefacts / News

Saturday, February 9, 2019

New article ponders the mystery of carved stone balls

Ness director Nick Card is pictured (right) in an article in the latest edition of British Archaeology magazine on the enigmatic carved stone balls of Scotland. Over 200 carved stone… Read more

News

Thursday, January 24, 2019

3D printing the Ness of Brodgar

At the end of last season, we mentioned the tremendous work done by Jim Bright, our photogrammetry expert, and Mark Newton, who produces wonderful physical 3D models from his printer.… Read more

News

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Helping inspire a new generation of archaeologists

An important element of the Ness of Brodgar excavations is allowing people to experience the site, the artefacts found to date and keeping everyone up to date with the latest… Read more

News

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Volunteers – the dig’s unsung heroes

Over the years, you will have read about many of the volunteers who make the eight-week excavation season happen. They dig, work on finds, run the shop, meet and greet… Read more

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

A look back to 1966…

Nothing specifically Ness related in this brilliant piece of film,, but some lovely views of Skara Brae, Maeshowe and the Ring of Brodgar. https://tv.nrk.no/serie/sommerbrev-fra-vesterled/FOLA66001166/27-09-1966… Read more

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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Ross at the Ness of Brodgar…

Among the 160 diggers working at the Ness this summer was Ross Drummond, an MSc student studying archaeology at the University of the Highlands and Islands. Ross’s Ness experience was one… Read more

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