Art and architecture at the Ness of Brodgar – a talk by Associate Professor Antonia Thomas
The recording of Associate Professor Antonia Thomas’ recent Orkney Archaeology Society talk.
Category: Ness of Brodgar
Dig into the Ness as part of 2026 Orkney Science Festival
‘Ness Day’ is just one of many events on the horizon as part of the Orkney Science Festival and Orkney Archaeology Festival.
Ness plant remains project benefits from national RICHeS funding programme
A project to assess carbonised plant remains from the Ness of Brodgar is one of 43 to receive funding through the first Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) Access Fund.
Time Team’s Ness of Brodgar special now available online
Professors Jane Downes and Ingrid Mainland are among the familiar faces seen in the new Time Team special on the Ness of Brodgar excavations.
Orkney premiere of Ness of Brodgar Time Team special on Friday
The 75‑minute Time Team Special filmed during the final full season of excavation at the Ness of Brodgar in 2024 has its world premiere in Orkney on Friday, July 3.
Congratulations Lucy! Ness documentary is a film awards finalist
A film by MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduate Lucy Carr-McClave is one of the finalists in the 2026 West Lothian Film Festival awards.
Art and architecture at the Ness – talk on Thursday by Antonia Thomas
The decorated stones from the Ness of Brodgar excavation are the subject of an Orkney Archaeology Society talk by Associate Professor Antonia Thomas on June 18.
Talking rock art with Antonia…
Dr Antonia Thomas features in a new Time Team video on prehistoric rock art, contrasting that found on Ilkley Moor with the Neolithic carvings in Orkney and the Ness of Brodgar.
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.
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.