Structure Twenty updated…
Excavation this summer provided new insights into Structure Twenty, an earlier building underlying Structure Ten. Read more
Category: Structures
Get up close to Structure Twenty-Seven with our latest 3d model
 Arguably the most beautifully built structure on the Ness, our latest 3d model features Structure Twenty-Seven in Trench T.As regular readers will know, the design and construction of Twenty-Seven… Read more
Video – Circling Structure Ten
Another video from Ness supervisor Jim Rylatt, this time focusing on Structure Ten – the last major construction on site and built around 2900BC.… Read more
Explore Structure Five and the ‘Great Wall’ with new 3d model of Trench J
Another new 3d model, this time of Trench J and featuring Structure Five and the northern boundary wall – the earliest structures revealed on site.
Trench J was the first… Read more
Video – Drone view of Structure Eight
Another of Jim Rylatt's drone videos, this time focusing on Structure Eight, the longest of the piered buildings excavated on site. Read more
The updates begin…
With the 2023 excavation over, it’s time to start updating the website material to take into account this season’s finds.
We’ve started with the easy ones, which are now available… Read more
Video – Structure One from above
Another short video from Jim Rylatt, this time a 360-degree flyaround of Structure One, the first building found on site back in March 2003.Note that the walls at the building’s… Read more
Video – Drone flyaround of Trench J
A short video of Trench J from Jim Rylatt, showing Structure Five and the northern boundary wall. Read more
Diary Extra – 3d model shows where three structures meet
Another new model from Paul Durdin, showing the small, but complex, area, beside Structure Twelve’s western, central pier.
Where buildings like Twelve have been built over the top of earlier… Read more
Video: Structure Twelve – ‘The hammer(stone) house of horrors’
Site director Nick Card's 2023 pre-dig lecture in Kirkwall, recorded by Orkney Archaeology Society in June as part of their OAS Legacy Project. Read more
Diary Extra – In and around Structure Twenty-Seven
Before excavation resumes in Structure Twenty-Seven tomorrow, Sigurd took the chance to get some pictures of this stunning – but enigmatic – building.Click on any of the images for a… Read more
Diary Extra – Around Trench P
A selection of photographs from Friday, recording elements of some of Trench P’s structures.
For more information on any of the buildings featured, see the Structures section.… Read more
Investigate Trench T and Structure Twenty-Seven
Not long to go now! Work to uncover the site begins on Monday, but here’s an aerial view of Trench T and Structure Twenty-Seven from 2022.
Zoom in, pan, explore… Read more
Structure Thirty
Structure Thirty in relation to the other piered buildings in Trench P.The large curving wall face belonging to Structure Thirty protrudes from the edge of Trench P to the south-east… Read more
