The second part of the Council for British Archaeology’s Festival of Archaeology kicks off today, Saturday, October 24. The festival, now in its 29th year, offering hundreds more opportunities to get involved in archaeology...
Our interim monograph, The Ness of Brodgar – As it Stands, is now available to pre-order. The book, which provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Ness of Brodgar excavations, is due to...
Another selection of photographs from the camera of dig director Nick Card.
By Sigurd Towrie We finished last week with George Marwick’s claimed “old name” for the Ring of Brodgar – Howastedgarth. I first stumbled across it in 2012, in a transcription of a talk given...
Chris Gee, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, discusses the creation of Neolithic carved stone balls. This video was made during the Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH)...
The latest in our series looking at the excavation of each major building over time focuses on Structure Ten. See also 3D model of Trench P.
By Sigurd Towrie “[In Stenness] beside the lake are stones high and broad, in height equal to a spear, and in an equal circle of half a mile.” Jo Ben. Descriptio Insularum Orchadiarum. c1529...
The next in our series looking at the excavation of each major structure over time focuses on Structure Twelve.
A new book providing a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the Ness of Brodgar is due to be published next month. Excavation at the Ness began in 2006 and the project’s interim monograph, The...
By Sigurd Towrie In the late 19th century, a grassy mound on a headland jutting into the Stenness loch attracted the attention of one of the many antiquarians with their sights on Orkney’s suspected...
