Ness of Brodgar

We also need to update you on what is simply gone.

The Ness of Brodgar excavation, which was the premier live archaeology draw of Orkney for a decade, is permanently finished.

The project's official site formally states that fieldwork ended in August 2024.

The trenches have been backfilled, the site is permanently closed to the public, and they ask visitors to respect the no-entry signs.

These were an elite group of very learned people.

And so, apart from anything else, apart from tin or copper or a visit to an important place like Stonehenge or the Ness of Brodgar, there was a time, a long time, when people may have come to these British Isles in search of wisdom.

It's like the ultimate university.

The best place, or one of the best places in which to do that, might have been here in these islands.