Digging to resume after 'big surprise' at Ness of Brodgar
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Time Team’s Dr John Gater (left) and Mike Langton of Guideline Geo, pictured with the radar system at the Ness of Brodgar. (Orkney Photographic)
Digging is set to resume at the internationally-renowned Ness of Brodgar after a new and exciting discovery could shed new light on the site’s 5,000-year-old story.
Archaeologists are remaining tight-lipped on what that discovery is — but excavations are set to restart next summer.
The discovery has stunned archaeologists and according to the site director, Nick Card, has been a “big surprise”.
It has come about after experts from Time Team focused their ground-penetrating radar on the 2.5-hectare site in July.
The site has been filled in after two decades of excavations, which brought visitors to Orkney from across the world.
Previous geophysical surveys established the extent of the Ness — just under ten per cent of which had been excavated.
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