Ongoing project investigating a monumental Neolithic complex in Orkney, Scotland.
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Back in 2024, Time Team filmed the final full season of excavation at the Ness — and we’re delighted to announce that the resulting 75‑minute Time Team Special will have its world premiere in Orkney on July 3.
Time Team's new special on the final season of digging at the Ness will be premiered in Orkney on July 3.
A look at 'Skaill knives' - a very common Neolithic stone tool - their use and fabrication.
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Ness of Brodgar
Stonehenge's connections likely go even further than this, however. Check out an #AntiquityDebate from 2024, which explores Neolithic connections across the whole of Britain and Ireland 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Lego fans young and old have a chance to put their skills to the test next month in a project to build the Ness of Brodgar structures entirely from Lego bricks!
‘Sherd Nerds’ back for a second season of pottery triage project
After the resounding success of the 2025 season, our nine-week pottery triage project got under way this week, with volunteers continuing to work through the Ness’ massive ceramics assemblage.
As part of their Stenness Past Present & Future project, pupils in the upper primary class at the Stenness school held a debate with the motion "Should a new visitor centre be built in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site buffer zone?"
Nick, and Anne will be discussing all thing Ness of Brodgar in the Maeshowe visitor centre tomorrow, Thursday, September 11, as part of the first Orkney #Archaeology Festival.
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/oaf-2025/
This week we take a look at (Mount) Maesry - a suspected Maeshowe-type chambered cairn on a small tidal island off the north-eastern tip of #Sanday.
#archaeology #Orkney #Neolithic #ChamberedCairn #ChamberedTomb
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/maesry-sanday/
A link to a new article on the Ness in the New Yorker magazine and a review of Peter Ross' "Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland"
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/new-yorker-2...
Plans announced for a four-week targeted excavation at the Ness in 2026 to investigate Time Team ground-penetrating radar results.
#archaeology #timeteamofficial #TimeTeam #Neolithic #Orkney #NessOfBrodgar
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-2026/
A look at ‘Skaill knives’ – a very common Neolithic stone tool – their use and fabrication.
Recent research has considered the relationship between Stonehenge and sites in south-west Wales, raising questions about whether the first monument at Stonehenge copied the form of an earlier stone circle at Waun Mawn and how the relationship between these sites was connected with the transport of bluestones between the different regions. But Stonehenge and Waun Mawn are not the only prehistoric sites in Britain and Ireland that share architectural elements and hint at social connections across vast distances of land and sea. This debate article explains how the questions raised about these Late Neolithic monuments can and should be applied to other monumental complexes to explore this insular phenomenon.
doi.org
Lego fans young and old have a chance to put their skills to the test next month in a project to build the Ness of Brodgar structures entirely from Lego bricks!
A link to a new article on the Ness in the New Yorker magazine and a review of Peter Ross’ “Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland”
After the resounding success of the 2025 season, our nine-week pottery triage project got under way this week, with volunteers continuing to work through the Ness’ massive ceramics assemblage.
As part of their Stenness Past Present & Future project, pupils in the upper primary class at the Stenness school held a debate with the motion "Should a new visitor centre be built in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site buffer zone?"
