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The recipients of the 2019 Shanghai in China in December.

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

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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Video – Trench P in 2008

Looking back it’s incredible to see the changes in the site over the past 12 years! This short video – it was a test, hence the terrible quality – shows… Read more

The south-eastern end of the Ness of Brodgar, showing the position of the excavation site. (Scott Pike)

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Thursday, January 9, 2020

Video – Ness flyaround: July 2019

Harking back to the balmy summer days of July 2019. A drone flyaround of the site, with excavation in full swing. (Scott Pike)… Read more

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Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Video – Trench T and Structure Twenty-Seven

A short video from this afternoon.… Read more

It was all go inside Structure Ten today. (Sigurd Towrie)

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Monday, July 29, 2019

Video – Day Twenty-One: Around the Trenches

A brief snapshot of what was a busy day on site.… Read more

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Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Hit by the weather again!

After a day basking in glorious sunshine, Orkney’s weather did what it does best – change! Gales, rain and thunder saw excavation work cancelled this morning.It’s forecast to improve in… Read more

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Monday, July 15, 2019

Video – Drone site flyaround

Drone aerial footage of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site today from Professor Scott Pike of Willamette University, Oregon, USA.… Read more

The backbreaking work of de-turfing under way at the extension of Trench X. (Sigurd Towrie)

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Monday, July 15, 2019

Video – Day Eleven: Around the Trenches

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Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Video: A damp day on site

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Monday, July 8, 2019

Video – Sunshine over Trench J

After a week of wet and windy weather, great progress was made in Trench J, and across the entire site, under bright sunshine today.… Read more

Video – Digging cancelled due to weather

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Thursday, July 4, 2019

Video – Digging cancelled due to weather

Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn’t been kind to us at all so far this year, but was so bad today that all digging operations had to… Read more

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Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Video – Uncovering Trench P

Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.… Read more

Professor Scott Pike testing his XRF machine on the deposits in Structure Ten.

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Tuesday, June 25, 2019

‘The Appliance of Science’ – pre-dig lecture available online

Last week’s pre-excavation lecture, in Kirkwall, by site director Nick Card. The talk, hosted by the Orkney Archaeology Society, was entitled The Appliance of Science.… Read more

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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

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Monday, September 24, 2018

The Summer Wind – Ness excavation 2013

The 2018 excavation season was blessed with nearly two months of uninterrupted sunshine and fair weather. How easy it is to forget how bad conditions can be on site –… Read more

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Monday, August 13, 2018

Video – Structure Eight from above

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