Excavation Diary 2007-2010

Previous years’ excavation diary entries can be selected from the archive calendar below.

However, because I have implemented a new system, menu links on the subsequent diary pages are no longer operational.

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Daily tours of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site run until Wednesday, August 22, 2012.

The weekday tours take place, from Monday to Friday, at 11am, 1pm and 3pm.

This year, for the first time, tours will also take place on Saturday and Sunday, at 11am and 3pm, although there will be no excavations on site.
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- Another six weeks in Orkney’s Neolithic heartland… August 30, 2012 (11:48am)
- Ness of Brodgar in the spotlight at the Orkney Museum April 30, 2012 (6:42pm)
- Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan online March 27, 2012 (8:26pm)
- Eight Orkney projects to benefit from a share of OIC’s £50,000 archaeology fund March 1, 2012 (9:44pm)
- Another award for the Ness of Brodgar excavations February 29, 2012 (1:28pm)
- Resurrecting the Neolithic priesthood… January 10, 2012 (3:15pm)
- Anonymous benefactor gifts Ness of Brodgar property to the people of Orkney November 23, 2011 (4:04pm)
- Radiocarbon dates point to a millennium of activity on the Ness of Brodgar October 27, 2011 (11:50am)
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- Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan and 3d panoramas online June 19, 2011 (8:19am)
- Ness of Brodgar is Research Project of the Year February 28, 2011 (12:01am)
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- The complex on the Ness of Brodgar — a Neolithic tribal meeting place? August 26, 2010 (6:22pm)
- From Stonehenge to the Ness of Brodgar…or vice versa? August 26, 2010 (12:55pm)