The Ness of Brodgar excavation is in the running for two titles in the national 2024 Current Archaeology Awards – one of the few times in the awards’ history that a single project received two nominations in the same year.
Dig director Nick Card is up for the title of Archaeologist of the Year, while the investigation of the Stenness Neolithic complex has been nominated for Research Project of the Year – a title it took back in 2011.
The awards are decided by the public at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote with the polls closing on Monday. The winners will be announced at the Current Archaeology Live! conference on February 24.
Commenting on the announcement, Nick said: “To be nominated for two awards is a great accolade to all the hard work that the Ness team has put into the project over the years – a fitting celebration to mark the end of two decades of excavation.”
The project is managed by the Ness of Brodgar Trust in partnership with the UHI Archaeology Institute.
The ongoing work at the Knowe of Swandro, Rousay, has been nominated for Rescue Project of the Year 2024.
The site, with activity running from the Iron Age to the Norse period, is being destroyed by coastal erosion so, in 2010, work began to excavate and record as much of it as possible before the archaeology is completely washed away.
The project is run by the Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust and the University of Bradford.
