Ness of Brodgar Postgraduate Undergraduate

Student field school begins at the Ness of Brodgar

UHI Archaeology Institute students arrived at the Ness of Brodgar today to participate in the 2024 field school.
 (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
The UHI Archaeology Institute students – Clare, Kevin Kerr (supervisor), Annie, Patty, Eli, Carly, Noora and Mena outside Trench Z at the start of the 2024 Ness field school. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

Among the new intake of diggers at the Ness of Brodgar today were students from the UHI Archaeology Institute, who are taking part in the excavation field school required as part of their degrees.

The students, watched over by Kevin Kerr and Dr Ben Elliott, were set to work in Trench Z – the extension to 2005’s Trench I – to reveal, once again, Structure Two. How does this early building relate to Structure Five, the earliest excavated building on site?

Stay up to date with their progress with the Ness daily diary.

Structure Two at the Ness of Brodgar, revealed in 2005.  (📷 ORCA)
Structure Two at the Ness of Brodgar, revealed in 2005. (📷 ORCA)

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