Renowned scholar to see sites and open Ness exhibition on Orkney visit
Professor Dame Mary Beard is in Orkney next month where she will open the Ness of Brodgar exhibition and be shown around some of the sites by UHI Archaeology Institute staff.
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Ness researcher awarded Royal Archaeological Institute prize for science
A researcher analysing lipids on Ness of Brodgar pottery sherds, has been awarded the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) prize for science on the archaeology of Britain and Ireland.
Places available on this summer’s ‘Ness to Ness’ art and archaeology workshop
We are delighted to open up the last remaining places on this year’s Ness to Ness art and archaeology course.
Ness of Brodgar scoops two titles at 2024 Current Archaeology Awards
Two Orkney projects took three of the four Current Archaeology awards at a ceremony in London this afternoon.
Link: Reconstructing the landscape of Brodgar’s prehistoric communities
UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Sue Dyke updates us on her research project to reconstruct the landscape around the Ness of Brodgar using pollen analysis.
Only days let to vote for the Ness in 2024 Current Archaeology Awards
The Ness of Brodgar excavation is in the running for two titles in the national 2024 Current Archaeology Awards.
Link: Zooarchaeology in action at the Ness of Brodgar
Two posts regarding the ongoing post-excavation work with animal bone at the Ness of Brodgar.
UHI Students reveal more of the ‘Great Wall’ at Ness of Brodgar fieldschool
Our two-week fieldschool at the Ness of Brodgar came to an end yesterday, with the students achieving, admirably, what site director Nick Card tasked them to do – open a trench extension and expose another section of the “Great Wall of Brodgar”.
Excavation at The Cairns gets this summer’s dig season under way
Our 2023 dig season kicks off today, with a full team returning to The Cairns Iron Age site.
Visit the Orkney Museum to see some of the Ness of Brodgar’s finest finds
The Orkney Museum is playing host to some of the Ness of Brodgar’s finest artefacts this summer.
Digging at Ness of Brodgar ending in 2024 with focus shifting to intensive post-excavation work
The final season of excavation at the Ness of Brodgar will take place in 2024, after which the remains of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic complex will be covered over and backfilled.
Link: Investigating the function and significance of multi-hollowed cobbles in the Orcadian Neolithic
In a new blog post for the Ness of Brodgar, UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Gary Lloyd introduces his new research project looking into multi-hollowed cobbles in the Orcadian Neolithic.
Links: ‘Orkney – Centre of the Stone Age’ and ‘The Art of Neolithic Orkney’ podcasts
A new podcast from History Hit, looking at Orkney’s Neolithic remains, including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, Skara Brae and a section on the Ness of Brodgar, featuring Nick Card and Roy Towers.
Link: The Ness of Brodgar – marking 20 years of Neolithic discoveries
In the summer of 2022, Current Archaeology‘s Carly Hilts visited the Ness of Brodgar excavation to see progress on the site and hear the latest thinking on the Neolithic complex.
New paper: Life and death of sheep and deer at the Ness of Brodgar
Professor Ingrid Mainland and Nick Card are among the authors of a new paper on the faunal remains from the Ness of Brodgar.
Ness of Brodgar dig dates for 2023 set
Archaeologists will be back at the Ness of Brodgar between Monday, July 3, 2023 until Friday, August 19, 2023.
‘Burning issues’ – funded MRes studentship available looking at Ness of Brodgar burnt animal bone
The UHI Archaeology Institute has a funded Masters by Research (MRes) studentship available, looking at the burnt bone assemblages from the Ness of Brodgar Neolithic complex.
2022 Ness of Brodgar excavation commended in Scottish Parliament
Orkney MSP Liam McArthur has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament welcoming the successful completion of another excavation season at the Ness of Brodgar.