Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Day Thirty-Two
There’s art in those stones…
We’re going to start today with heartiest congratulations to two of our stalwarts.
Claire and Mike have toiled long and hard in Structure… Read more
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Dig Diary – Monday, August 15, 2016
Day Thirty-One
Reusing a stone circle?
We are worried about the BBC. The team filming the Ness excavations arrived in force this morning and followed Nick around, bombarding him with… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, August 12, 2016
Day Thirty
The Ness is alive, with the sound of ‘chambered’ . . .
The Ness of Brodgar is suffused with a rosy glow today and it has nothing, absolutely… Read more
Dig Diary Special – Thursday, August 11, 2016
Getting to grips with geomatics
Although to most visitors of the Ness of Brodgar we might appear like either brightly-coloured or darkly-tinted lumps of waterproofs, crouched down in tiny corners… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Day Twenty-Eight
A veritable ‘Day of Stone’
Today was a day of solid, undiluted archaeology. As site director Nick describes it, with capital letter emphasis, a Day of Stone.
You… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Day Twenty-Seven
What lies beneath Structure Ten’s sandstone blocks?
Sorry folks, we’re starting with the weather again, but for a particular reason. Today is windy and cold.
The weather-beating received… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 8, 2016
Day Twenty-Six
Decorating the stones as the walls were built . . .
If any dear readers are fed up hearing about the weather, rest assured, we are fed up… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, August 5, 2016
Day Twenty-Five
Astounding generosity and a daunting discovery . . .
We have two huge events to report today. The first is the utterly amazing response to our appeal for… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, August 4, 2016
Day Twenty-Four
Some things becomes clearer, others don’t . . .
Resilience is the hallmark of many archaeologists. It has to be, as a life in a muddy trench, while… Read more
Dig Diary Special – Wednesday, August 3, 2016
Day Twenty-Three
Back in the lab with geoarchaeologist Jo
Hi everyone. It’s Jo McKenzie here – as seen in some of the blog posts from the first two weeks of this… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 2, 2016
Day Twenty-Two
Big buildings and another very big beast
So much has happened today that it’s difficult to know where to start. Perhaps the beginning would be best and, as… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 1, 2016
Day Twenty-One
Watched by a drone above . . .
Somehow you never imagine, when embarking on a career in archaeology, that the regulations of the Civil Aviation Authority will… Read more
Dig Diary – Sunday, July 31, 2016
Day Twenty
The year’s first open day
What a day! We were promised mainly dry weather but the wind blew and the showers just kept on coming – but still… Read more
Diary Extra – 3D reconstruction of a complete pillow stone
Today saw the discovery of another pillow stone at the Ness, although the latest find, from Trench X, was broken. One of the other, complete, pillow stones found on site… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 28, 2016
Day Nineteen
The covers come off Structure Twelve after another morning of rain.
Structure Eight’s rosette stone
The newly discovered decorated stone from Structure Eight.
Like yesterday, as the day… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Day Eighteen
A macehead and an anvil stone
As the blog was being put together, at the end of the day, Trench X produced another… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Day Seventeen
The structure with no name . . .
Today was a day of head-scratching and complexities in more than one of the Ness structures.
In the ominously-named Trench… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 25, 2016
Day Sixteen
Hearths, magnetism and old friends…
One of the great pleasures of summer at the Ness is welcoming back those who have worked here… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 22, 2016
Day Fifteen
Ending week three with a day of discovery
Today was a day of discoveries at the Ness and some of them have been really exciting. The most sensational was the… Read more
Diary Extra – Thursday, July 21, 2016
Some views from above
Time of another three of Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark’s panoramas, taken today, from high above various locations in Trench P.
The first was taken from directly above… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 21, 2016
Day Fourteen
More bone and a second notched stone
Miracle of miracles! A very nice lady visited the Ness today, seized the diary by the arm and insisted that there… Read more
