Kirkwall premiere for graduate’s Ness film
A film by MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduate Lucy Carr-McClave will be premiered in Kirkwall on Thursday evening.
Category: Ness of Brodgar
Link: Time Team dig plans at Ness of Brodgar confirmed for 2026
A small team of diggers will return to the Ness of Brodgar in 2026, following a major programme of geophysical survey across the site.
Link: MRes student researching Neolithic food preparation within Ness complex
Gianluca Marzagalli, from Italy, is undertaking a Masters by Research (MRes) at the UHI Archaeology Institute, looking at Structure Twelve’s animal remains in relation to the preparation of food.
Link: Gianluca focusing on Neolithic food preparation for MRes degree
UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Gianluca Marzagalli outlines his research into the animal remains from the Ness of Brodgar’s Structure Twelve in relation to the preparation of food.
Ness of Brodgar online talk this afternoon as part of North Ronaldsay Science Festival
As part of the 2025 North Ronaldsay Science Festival, Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card is giving a free, online talk this afternoon.
Link: At the cutting edge in Orkney – axes from the Ness of Brodgar
An update from Dr Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, who has been examining the Ness of Brodgar axe assemblage, as well as examples from other Neolithic sites in Orkney, as part of his postdoc project, At the Cutting Edge (‘ACE’): The Biographies of Orcadian Neolithic Axes.
Link: Fuel for the fires? Burnt bone analysis at the Ness of Brodgar
An update from UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Jackson Clark on his research into the burnt animal bone from Structure Eight at the Ness of Brodgar.
Link: Excavating the central hearth in the Ness of Brodgar’s Structure Five
UHI Archaeology Institute PhD candidate Sarah-Jane Haston on her experience of excavating Structure Five’s central hearth in 2024.
Link: Smithsonian magazine looks at the final fieldwork season at the Ness
The Smithsonian magazine’s new article on the 2024 fieldwork season at the Ness of Brodgar is now available online.
Ness of Brodgar faunal assemblage outlined at Oxford environmental archaeology conference
Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford.
In Conversation – the Ness of Brodgar
Professor Ingrid Mainland and Dr Antonia Thomas are among the specialists featuring in BBC Radio Orkney’s ‘In Conversation: The Ness of Brodgar’ programme.
Students’ field school trench reveals another huge wall section at the Ness of Brodgar
This summer, students from the UHI Archaeology Institute were instrumental in a major, and eye-opening, discovery at the Ness of Brodgar.
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.
Archaeologists return to the Ness of Brodgar for final season of fieldwork
The final season of excavation at the Ness of Brodgar gets under way tomorrow, with the site open to the public from Wednesday.
Link: ‘Cereal Journey’ – analysing the cereal grains from the Ness of Brodgar
Two articles from Sarah-Jane Haston, who is looking at the charred plant remains from the Ness of Brodgar as part of her PhD with the UHI Archaeology Institute.
Mary Beard opens Ness exhibition during ‘eye-opening’ trip to Orkney
The Ness of Brodgar exhibition at the Orkney Museum was officially opened this evening by the renowned classicist, presenter and author Professor Dame Mary Beard.
Ness of Brodgar exhibition running at the Orkney Museum until September
To mark the the final season of excavation, the Ness of Brodgar is the subject of a major new exhibition at the Orkney Museum this summer.
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.