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Tag Archives: Ness of Brodgar

Neolithic

Setting the scene for another season on the Ness of Brodgar

The diggers at the end of the 2012 season of excavations. (Picture: Adam Stanford/www.aerial-cam.co.uk)
Neolithic

TV crews due back on the Ness

Site director Nick Card discusses the Ness of Brodgar with Neil Oliver in 2011.
Bronze Age, Iron Age, Neolithic

Summer excavation dates

One of the Neolithic houses at Ha'Breck, Wyre (Picture: ORCA)
Neolithic

Ness of Brodgar excavation dates 2013

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Neolithic

Second place for Orkney World Heritage Site in UK’s top ten

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Neolithic

Back to the USA for Ness of Brodgar lecture tour

Nick Card, senior projects manager at the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology.
Neolithic

Another six weeks in Orkney’s Neolithic heartland…

(Picture: Adam Stanford/www.aerial-cam.co.uk)
Neolithic

Ness of Brodgar in the spotlight at the Orkney Museum

Ness-of-Brodgar
Neolithic

Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan online

(Picture: Adam Stanford/www.aerial-cam.co.uk)
Iron Age, Neolithic, Viking

Eight Orkney projects to benefit from a share of OIC’s £50,000 archaeology fund

The ongoing excavation of the Iron Age site at Cairns, South Ronaldsay. (Sigurd Towrie)
Neolithic

Another award for the Ness of Brodgar excavations

Ness-of-Brodgar
Neolithic

Resurrecting the Neolithic priesthood…

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Neolithic

Anonymous benefactor gifts Ness of Brodgar property to the people of Orkney

Lochview, with the Ness of Brodgar dig site in the background.
Bronze Age, Neolithic

Radiocarbon dates point to a millennium of activity on the Ness of Brodgar

The earliest radiocarbon dates came from material underneath the 'Lesser Wall of Brodgar'. (ORCA)
Bronze Age, Mesolithic, Neolithic

Do survey results show a massive prehistoric monument under the water of the Stenness Loch?

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Neolithic

New finds in ‘cathedral’ building reignite age-old question – Stone Age dresser or altar?

One of the “dressers” in Skara Brae. (Sigurd Towrie)
Neolithic

About a (Brodgar) Boy…

The Brodgar Boy
Neolithic

Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan and 3d panoramas online

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Neolithic

Ness of Brodgar is Research Project of the Year

Nick Card, senior projects manager at the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology.
Iron Age, Neolithic, Viking

Eight research projects share OIC’s £50k archaeology fund

Excavations on the Brough of Deerness, Orkney.
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