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Category: Ness of Brodgar

Hugo Anderson-Whymark
Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Post-excavation

Digging at Ness of Brodgar ending in 2024 with focus shifting to intensive post-excavation work

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, March 6, 2023 (11:00am)Monday, March 6, 2023 (11:04am)
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Visitors at Ness of Brodgar (Jim Richardson)
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Post-excavation Postgraduate Research

Link: Investigating the function and significance of multi-hollowed cobbles in the Orcadian Neolithic

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, February 13, 2023 (1:07pm)Monday, February 13, 2023 (1:12pm)
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Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

Links: ‘Orkney – Centre of the Stone Age’ and ‘The Art of Neolithic Orkney’ podcasts

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.

by Sigurd TowrieSunday, January 15, 2023 (11:02am)Monday, January 16, 2023 (1:40pm)
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Trench P at the Ness of Brodgar. (Hugo Anderson Whymark)
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

Link: The Ness of Brodgar – marking 20 years of Neolithic discoveries

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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, January 3, 2023 (4:10pm)Tuesday, January 3, 2023 (4:10pm)
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Visitors at Ness of Brodgar (Jim Richardson)
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Post-excavation Research Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, November 21, 2022 (8:00am)Monday, November 21, 2022 (3:46pm)
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Ness of Brodgar
Excavation Neolithic 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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, November 15, 2022 (12:17pm)Tuesday, November 15, 2022 (12:18pm)
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Picture: Jim Richardson
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Post-excavation Postgraduate

‘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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, October 24, 2022 (8:00am)Tuesday, November 8, 2022 (9:04am)
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar News

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 23, 2022 (2:39pm)Friday, September 23, 2022 (2:39pm)
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Picture: Ole Thoenies
Neolithic 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.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, August 3, 2022 (6:06pm)Wednesday, August 3, 2022 (6:06pm)
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Ness of Brodgar and Skaill
Excavation Ness of Brodgar Skaill Farmstead

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, July 4, 2022 (6:30am)Sunday, July 3, 2022 (9:18pm)
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Visitors at Ness of Brodgar (Jim Richardson)
Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, June 20, 2022 (12:28pm)Monday, June 20, 2022 (12:48pm)
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Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, June 13, 2022 (8:32am)Monday, June 13, 2022 (8:32am)
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Ness of Brodgar
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Seminar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, April 12, 2022 (7:17am)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:08am)
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Picture: Antonia Thomas
Bronze Age Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, February 21, 2022 (4:05pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:11am)
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Picture: Antonia Thomas
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, February 17, 2022 (10:56am)Thursday, February 17, 2022 (10:56am)
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Trench P at the Ness of Brodgar. (Hugo Anderson Whymark)
Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, November 30, 2021 (4:46pm)Wednesday, December 1, 2021 (7:17pm)
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An image of the latest Ness of Brodgar fingerprints captured using Reflectance Transformation Imaging. (Jan Blatchford)
Archaeology Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Research

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, October 25, 2021 (8:30am)Monday, October 25, 2021 (8:18am)
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Bone deposit from the Ness of Brodgar
LIFTE Ness of Brodgar Postgraduate Research

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, October 15, 2021 (12:41pm)Friday, October 15, 2021 (4:43pm)
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