Category: Video

Sunday, September 6, 2020

The Science of the Ness – 2020 Orkney Science Festival talk

In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, site director Nick Card outlines the scientific techniques involved in excavation and post-excavation work and is joined by two colleagues… Read more

Spatulate Stone Tools at the Ness of Brodgar

Artefacts / Video

Friday, July 31, 2020

Video: Stone spatulate tools from the Ness of Brodgar

Archaeology Institute UHI graduate Gary Lloyd was awarded a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship to complete the research, which focused on the spoon-like artefacts, of which over 80 have been found to date. Read more

Excavation / Video

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Woodlands under the waves…

A talk by Dr Scott Timpany of the Archaeology Institute UHI on prehistoric woodlands preserved within intertidal peats around the coastline of Britain. Here Scott explains the information these… Read more

Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn (Sigurd Towrie)

Chambered Cairns / Video

Thursday, July 16, 2020

The trouble with Cuween: human remains from Neolithic Orkney

Do we have evidence of ritualised violence at Cuween? A video lecture from Dr Rebecca Crozier, well-known in Orkney for her work at the Quanterness Chambered Cairn, released as… Read more

Ring of Brodgar / Standing Stones / Video

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Diary extra – a summertime wander around the Ring of Brodgar

With some work to do at Ness dig HQ, Sigurd decided to take a wander around the Ring of Brodgar first. Read more

Artefacts / Video

Friday, June 26, 2020

Dig director Nick on Neolithic carved stone balls

With replicas of the carved stone bone from Structure Ten going on sale online today, Ness of Brodgar excavation director Nick Card gives some background to these enigmatic objects.… Read more

Excavation / Video

Thursday, June 11, 2020

From the archives – Re-opening Trench P

One from our video archive – work getting under way uncovering and cleaning up Trench P in July 2010.… 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

Excavation / Video

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)

Video

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

Excavation / Video

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)

Excavation / Video

Monday, July 29, 2019

Video – Day Twenty-One: Around the Trenches

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

Excavation / Video

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