The Ness of Brodgar has been selected for a 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum Field Discovery Award. Having heard we had been nominated a few weeks ago, we have just learnt that we have won an award. For this year’s forum, a total of 141 nominations from around the world were …
Would you like a private tour of the Ness, and at the same time support Children in Need? Now you can by bidding in the Radio Orkney charity auction to raise funds for the annual country-wide appeal. The tour is for up to ten people and can be taken …
The dates for the 2020 excavation season at the Ness have been confirmed. We will be back on site from July 6, 2020 until August 21, 2020, with the site open to the public, with tours running, from July 8 until August 19. Next year’s two open days will be …
Over the last few seasons we have discovered many sherds of pottery that exhibit colour. The Ness is one of the very few sites in the UK where this has been recognised and may represent the oldest polychrome pottery in Britain. A new paper – Analysis of coloured Grooved Ware …
During the 2019 season, we all got very excited about the discovery of what appeared to be a second human arm bone – an ulna – from Structure Ten. This seemed to fit with other previous presumed votive deposits under the later phase rebuild of Structure Ten, when corner buttresses …
The Ness of Brodgar has been nominated both by Professor Eszter Bánffy of the German Archaeological Institute, and Dr Michael Boyd of the University of Cambridge for the prestigious 2019 Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) Awards Program (Discovery Award). Founded in 2013, Shanghai Archaeology Forum is a global initiative dedicated to …
Archaeology Scotland had the opportunity to visit the Ness during this summer’s eight-week excavation season. Click here to read their report.
Professor Mark Edmonds will launch his new book, Orcadia – Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney, at an open event in the Stromness Library on Monday evening, October 14. At the launch, Mark will give a talk on Neolithic Orkney and some of the material covered in his book, …
A must buy for anyone interested in the Neolithic of Orkney and its wonderful sites, is the brilliant new book Orcadia – Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney by Professor Mark Edmonds, long-term friend and supporter of the Ness. This handsome and beautifully written volume really puts the Ness …
A link to today’s Current Archaeology’s article on this summer’s excavation: https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/summer-of-finds-at-the-ness-of-brodgar.htm
The Ness was very pleased today to welcome a special guest to site – well in fact two – Morph and his creator Peter Lord and his family. Peter is the animator, film producer, director and co-founder of the Academy Award-winning Aardman Animations studio – best known for his clay-animated films …
Regular readers of our daily excavation blog will recall that for a few days in August, towards the end of the season, Trench P was the subject of a major clean-up operation. All hands were on deck, with over 60 diggers diverted to Trench P ahead of a massive photography …
Three tiny flint tools are the latest evidence of Mesolithic activity on the Ness of Brodgar peninsula. Previous finds of Mesolithic tools on site suggest people were living and moving across the Ness long before the Neolithic (c.4000–2500BC). The crescent microlith and two backed bladelets were found by lithic specialist …
This year the Art Hut hosted four artists: Jeanne Bouza Rose, Diane Eagles, Karen Wallis, and Annie Wright. For the first four weeks of the excavation, Annie Wright took photos of the diggers and the stones, portraying “Life in the Trenches”, as part of her collections of ancient heritage sites. …
