Around the Ness – The Stone of Odin
“As we passed the Bridge of Brodgar, we could dimly descry the Standing Stones of Stenness on the eminence but today looming in the darkness like a regiment of grim spectres. As we approached...
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Ness dig director at Current Archaeology Live!
Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card is one of the speakers at next weekend’s Current Archaeology Live event. The annual conference, which is taking place online this year, brings together leading archaeological...
Around the Ness – Skara Brae
“Nowhere, except in Egypt or at Pompeii, is a prehistoric settlement to be found, the streets, huts and even domestic furniture of which are in such perfect preservation” Professor V. Gordon Childe. Letter to...
Online lecture – The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project and the Durrington Walls Pits Circle
Readers might be interested in a free online lecture running next Thursday, February 25, at 5pm (GMT) The Society of Antiquaries of London lecture, The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project and the Durrington Walls Pits...
Wednesday wildlife – wintry weather
A definite wintry feel to this week’s offering from site director Nick Card.
The Ness dig – a video introduction
New to the Ness of Brodgar? Wondering what the excavation is all about? Here’s our new seven-minute video summary of the site.
Celebrate the equinox with a talk from the dig director
To celebrate the vernal equinox, the beginning of spring, we will be posting a new lecture by Nick about the Ness, on Saturday, March 20. We’ve been unable to make the lecture till now...
Walk the Ness Neolithic Trail
Although visitors can’t come to Orkney at present due to the Covid pandemic travel restrictions, we’re all looking forward to a time when things get back to some semblance of normality. So if you’re...
Ness book declared ‘a stunning accomplishment’
The Ness of Brodgar interim monograph has been hailed a “stunning accomplishment” by Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine. In his review in the March/April issue, he highlights that the book “has much...
Wednesday wildlife – birds of a feather
We’re under a thick blanket of snow at the moment, so this week its a few of site director Nick’s photographs from late January, when things were not quite so cold.
Around the Ness: Knowes and barrows
“We know little about most of the mounds around the Ring, though the clustering is enough to demonstrate that proximity was important.” Mark Edmonds. Orcadia: Land, Sea and Stone in Neolithic Orkney. 2019. ...
Wednesday wildlife – ice hunters
We’ve been in the grip of some cold weather, meaning iced-up loch sections. But as these pictures from site director Nick Card show, the daily hunt for food involved a little less swimming than...
