Monthly Archive: July 2016
Day Six
Some timely arrivals . . .
Reinforcements arrived on site today, and not before time. The Ness has developed, over the years, into a site which is both…
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Day Five: Did Structure Ten have a tiled roof?
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Day Four
Ladies and gentlemen, may we present . . . Trench X
Today, the serious archaeology continued with geoarchaeologist Jo McKenzie’s sampling of the floors in Structure Twelve.
But while Jo…
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Day Three
Cleaning rocks in the hot sun . . .
The diary has a real problem today. By the end of many hours in the hot Orkney sun, it…
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Reader’s of today’s diary entry will have seen the photograph of Hugo Anderson-Whymark with his “latest gizmo” – a Panono “ball camera” that is a rather wonderful, and impressive, piece of kit.
Inside…
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Day Two
The trench with no name . . .
Today started ominously for, as work began first thing in the morning, a glance south-eastwards showed a huge bank of…
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Uncovering the site . . . in 31 seconds…
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Day One
And we’re off . . .
We’re back! After what seems like forever, the Ness of Brodgar is springing into life once more.
Ten months ago, this most iconic…
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