Zoom in and explore Trench J
Zoom in and pan around high-resolution images of Trench J from 2021 and 2022. Read more
Category: Structures
Get up close to the archaeology in Trench P

An overhead view of Trench P at the end of the 2019 season – the last time it was completely uncovered.
Zoom in for a close-up view of the… Read more
Stone roofing at the Ness of Brodgar
A new section outlining the the evidence for stone “tiled” roofs at the Ness and what these might have looked like.
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Structure Thirty-Two additions bring Trench J up-to-date
With an entry running to a mere four paragraphs, Structure Thirty-Two hadn’t received much love on the website!
But that’s been fully remedied now with an updated summary of what… Read more
Do post-holes represent a timber building beneath Structure Five?
We mentioned it briefly during last summer’s dig diary, but we’ve got another update to Structure Five’s page today, covering the possibility that there may be an earlier, timber building… Read more
The central paved area and standing stone
An update to our excavation background section this week, dealing with the “central paved area” and standing stone between Structures One, Eight, Twelve and Twenty-Nine.
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Structure Twenty-Seven – updated and expanded
This summer we returned to Trench T for the first time since 2019.
There, the focus was on Structure Twenty-Seven, a large building that had been badly robbed of stone… Read more
Structure Five – updated and rewritten
Our understanding of Structure Five, the oldest building excavated on site to date, has come on in leaps and bounds.
So we’ve completely updated its entry to reflect this.… Read more
Structures Seventeen and Eighteen updated
Structures Seventeen and Eighteen are two earlier buildings that pre-date, and lie beneath, Structure Eight. During the 2022 excavation season, one of the focuses was to reveal more of the… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – 3d model of Structure One’s central orthostat
Another 3d model from Paul Durdin, this time the central orthostat in Structure One.
This stone was inserted into the building’s northern hearth and was one of three tied into… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – New 3d models of Structures Nineteen and Thirty-Two
Two new annotated models by Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin, showing the remains of Structures Nineteen and Thirty-Two.
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Dig Diary Extra – Bird’s-eye view of Structure Twenty-Seven
Video and photographs from Professor Scott Pike, showing Structure Twenty-Seven in all its glory yesterday.… Read more
Updated entry for Structure Ten
Our update to the structures section of the website concludes today, with a fully expanded and revised entry for Structure Ten – the last monumental construction at the Ness of… Read more
