PLEASE HELP THE NESS OF BRODGAR!!!!......From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…. Mr. Mac & Jackie M…..
by Bernie Bell - 09:34 on 28 November 2023
PLEASE HELP THE NESS OF BRODGAR!!!!.....
I’ve copied this from the Orkney Archaeology Society’s Facebook page…. https://www.facebook.com/OrkneyArchaeologySociety/
“How you can help the Ness of Brodgar...
Our friends at the Ness of Brodgar are looking for your help, and if you are happy to help would be great if you could send them a note of support - addressed to nick.card@uhi.ac.uk
The team at the Ness are preparing a grant application to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) which they are working on for the Ness of Brodgar. As you are aware 2024 is the last season of excavation at the Ness - but the story of the Ness will not end there with lots of post-excavation analysis, writing and publications to complete – all to add to the legacy that the Ness will leave.
They want to sustain the social and economic value their work has had with local and wider communities into the future, and they want to do this via the creation of a new and substantial website for the Ness and the provision of training and other resources - all designed as ever to facilitate local participation, to boost the tourist economy, and to disseminate important information about the project.
The new website aspect of the project will centre on the development of a range of digital resources (including films and 3D models/visualisations), to be accessed through the website. Their goal is to produce an innovative open access digital platform that will serve many communities; from schools to those with a general interest in the Ness and Orkney's archaeology more generally, to professionals who wish to drill down into the detail of the excavated data. Once their fieldwork is done, the website will allow users to explore all aspects of this evidence, and to track developments during the post-excavation process.
Their aim is also to prioritise and maintain the involvement of local people involved, through the provision of training and involvement in e.g., finds analysis, the study of animal remains and 3D modelling, amongst other work in this post-excavation phase of Ness work. They aim to work with local museums to create material for exhibitions, and they would also like to create material with Orkney tour guides, and with local schools, artists, and illustrators to create new teaching resources, among them novel graphic approaches to the interpretation of the site. The aim is to provide an invaluable suite of resources to a wide range of folk and help keep the Ness (and Orkney) in the public eye across the world.
If you believe this is a worthwhile endeavour which you can support, they would be very pleased to have a letter of support from you to submit with their HLF application, perhaps explaining why you believe this would be a valuable continuation of the Ness story, why the Ness is important to Orkney, and how you consider the importance of the Ness project to date has been in the promotion of Orkney, and why involvement with the Ness has been good for you, your community, your business as applicable.
They have a relatively tight turn-round on this – the deadline for the application is January. If you can get back to them by mid-December, they would be delighted to hear from you.”
Meanwhile…a blast from the past…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/2004-dsr/
I remember seeing that those squares of turf had been lifted…and wondering…
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/10/26/distant-connections/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Stephen Gill
“A reminder of the infinite variations of a single scene over a period of time, suggesting that nothing happens twice.”
“Gazing over the vast fields surrounding his home in Skåne, Sweden, with a hunch that the space held more activity than he could see, British photographer Stephen Gill had an idea: to plant two meter-and-a-half tall wooden pillars on the edge of a field. One pillar would serve as a perch to “pull birds from the sky,” and the other would hold a motion-sensor camera that would capture their activity.
Candid close-ups catch birds between perch and flight, preening their intricate feathers, pinwheeling in a change of direction midair: glimpses of their vitality—and personality—that humans don’t normally get to see. Entangled with the wind, the air, the snow, the bending grass, the light of their natural surroundings, these photos capture wild lives as they are—each moment a revelation, unrepeatable.”
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Mr. Mac & Jackie M…..
….are doing A GOOD THING…..
PS
Jackie's sale is going so well, that she's re-posted......
https://www.jackiemorris.co.uk/more-beauty-for-sale-for-msf/
Do - look again.....
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Here’s one I made earlier…. https://theorkneynews.scot/2022/03/15/a-different-kind-of-rock-art-part-ten/
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