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”.
The penultimate season of excavation at the Ness of Brodgar gets under way tomorrow, with the site open to the public from Wednesday.
Our 2023 dig season kicks off today, with a full team returning to The Cairns Iron Age site.
The Orkney Museum is playing host to some of the Ness of Brodgar’s finest artefacts this summer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Professor Ingrid Mainland and Nick Card are among the authors of a new paper on the faunal remains from the Ness of Brodgar.
Archaeologists will be back at the Ness of Brodgar between Monday, July 3, 2023 until Friday, August 19, 2023.
