New paper: Life and death of sheep and deer at the Ness of Brodgar
Professor Ingrid Mainland and Nick Card are among the authors of a new paper on the faunal remains from the Ness of Brodgar.
Category: Ness of Brodgar
Ness of Brodgar dig dates for 2023 set
Archaeologists will be back at the Ness of Brodgar between Monday, July 3, 2023 until Friday, August 19, 2023.
‘Burning issues’ – funded MRes studentship available looking at Ness of Brodgar burnt animal bone
The UHI Archaeology Institute has a funded Masters by Research (MRes) studentship available, looking at the burnt bone assemblages from the Ness of Brodgar Neolithic complex.
2022 Ness of Brodgar excavation commended in Scottish Parliament
Orkney MSP Liam McArthur has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament welcoming the successful completion of another excavation season at the Ness of Brodgar.
Link: Wonderful things hiding in plain sight: art at the Ness of Brodgar
A new blog post by Dr Antonia Thomas, on the subject of Neolithic art at the Ness of Brodgar, is now available on the Ola Gorie website.
Excavations at Skaill farm and Ness of Brodgar resume today
UHI Archaeology Institute research excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, Stenness, Orkney and at Skaill farm, Rousay, resume today, Monday, July 4.
Summer exhibition to focus on the people of the Ness of Brodgar
Running alongside this year’s excavation at the Ness of Brodgar is an exhibition of artefacts from the site in the Maeshowe visitor centre, Stenness.
Ness of Brodgar pre-excavation talk in Orkney Theatre this week
Orkney Archaeology Society (OAS) is hosting a pre-dig talk by Ness of Brodgar director Nick Card on Thursday, June 16.
Video: Connections across Britain and Ireland during the age of Stonehenge
Nick Card, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and director of the Ness of Brodgar excavation, was a speaker in a British Museum talk last week on links between Neolithic Orkney and the rest of Britain and Ireland.
Intensely moved by the human stories at launch of ‘World of Stonehenge’
Dr Antonia Thomas was in London last week and attended the official launch of the World of Stonehenge at the British Museum.
Ness of Brodgar artefacts in British Museum’s ‘World of Stonehenge’ exhibition
Artefacts from the Ness of Brodgar – one of the UHI Archaeology Institute’s flagship excavations – are among the hundreds brought together for a special exhibition on Stonehenge at the British Museum.
Ness of Brodgar 2022 dig dates confirmed
Excavation at the Ness of Brodgar will resume on Monday, July 4, 2022, running until Friday, August 19, 2022.
Latest prehistoric fingerprints on Ness of Brodgar pottery sherd belonged to 13-year-old boy
The latest prehistoric fingerprints found on fragments of pottery from the Ness of Brodgar belonged to a 13-year-old boy.
Only days left to apply for our part-funded MRes studentships
There’s only a few days left to apply if you’re interested in applying for one of the three part-funded Masters by Research (MRes) studentships at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute.