Tag Archives: Standing Stones of Stenness

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

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Resurrecting the Neolithic priesthood…

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
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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)
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Do survey results show a massive prehistoric monument under the water of the Stenness Loch?

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The complex on the Ness of Brodgar — a Neolithic tribal meeting place?

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

From Stonehenge to the Ness of Brodgar…or vice versa?

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Laser scanning the Heart of Neolithic Orkney

Dr Lyn Wilson, project leader, and Alastair Rawlinson of the Digital Design Studio at Glasgow School of Art scanning inside House Seven at Skara Brae. (Historic Scotland)

The ‘Cathedral’ at the Heart of Neolithic Orkney

The Neolithic 'cathedral' — Structure 10, from the north. (ORCA)

Brodgar assumptions questioned at end of Ness dig

Trench P, just about ready for the final photographs, as the last public tour of the day takes place. (ORCA)

Experts stunned by scale of Brodgar structure

Structure Ten after initial cleaning. Here we see about half of it - geophysics suggests that it is over 20 metres long. (ORCA)
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Brodgar excavation ends, but the secrets of the stone circle are becoming clearer

Brodgar excavation ends, but the secrets of the ring becoming clearer. (Sigurd Towrie)
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Sea level results lead to radical rethink over World Heritage Site landscape

Sue Dawson taking a core sample from the Stenness loch.
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Salt Knowe – Orkney’s Silbury Hill?

Salt Knowe, by the shore of the Stenness Loch. (Sigurd Towrie)

Stonehenge houses highlight the importance of Orcadian archaeology

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
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On earth as it is in heaven – was Orion linked to Orkney’s Neolithic heartland?

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

Enigmatic Brodgar structure produces another example of Neolithic art

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Re-evaluating Orkney’s stone circles

Ongoing geophysics project continues to reveal secrets of the Ness of Brodgar

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