Monthly Archive: August 2018
Dig Diary – Monday, August 13, 2018
Day Thirty-One
Surprise start to penultimate week
We are now in our penultimate week of excavation at the Ness and, as is usual so close to the end of the… Read more
‘Milk, Beef and Beer’
Feast
Diane Eagles – Artist in residence
Three ritual feasting vessels, entitled Milk, Beef and Beer, are endowed with symbolic references to Neolithic ceramics and the Ness of Brodgar.
They are… Read more
Day Thirty in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Friday, August 10, 2018
Day Thirty
An international affair…
One of the factors which makes studying archaeology with the University of the Highlands and Islands in Orkney such an enjoyable affair is the presence… Read more
Day Twenty-Nine in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Thursday, August 9, 2018
Day Twenty-Nine
Joining the dots in ‘bling central’
We haven’t mentioned Structure Eight much lately.
Formerly known as “bling central” because of the extravagance of the artefacts found within it… Read more
Day Twenty-Eight in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Day Twenty-Eight
A tale of two orthostats…
Structure Twenty-Six is one of the oddest buildings we have excavated at the Ness.
It is a peculiar shape, with walling which at… Read more
Day Twenty-Seven in pictures…
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