Tag Archives: Stenness

Ness of Brodgar excavation dates 2013

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

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

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Another six weeks in Orkney’s Neolithic heartland…

(Picture: Adam Stanford/www.aerial-cam.co.uk)
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Virtual tour of Maeshowe goes online

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

Ness of Brodgar in the spotlight at the Orkney Museum

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Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan online

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

Another award for the Ness of Brodgar excavations

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Resurrecting the Neolithic priesthood…

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

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

Lochview, with the Ness of Brodgar dig site in the background.
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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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About a (Brodgar) Boy…

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Updated Ness of Brodgar site plan and 3d panoramas online

Picture: Sigurd Towrie

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

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The Ness of Brodgar – opening a Neolithic treasure chest

A sun symbol? The "Brodgar Eye", found, by the dresser in Structure Ten, in 2009.
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Recent floods highlight theory on Maeshowe’s ditch

Picture: Historic Scotland

Exploratory dig confirms existence of Brodgar Neolithic complex

Picture: Sigurd Towrie
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Re-evaluating Orkney’s stone circles

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Crannogs – revealing a lost chapter of Orkney’s history

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