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
Monthly Archive: August 2018
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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Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 7, 2018
Day Twenty-Seven
More axes from opposite ends of the site
There is something about polished stone axes. We know that many of them were utilitarian items, something like the Swiss… Read more
3D model – Grooved Ware pot from Trench J
The pot found and excavated by Ray in the Trench J extension on Monday afternoon.… Read more
Video – From the trenches
A shorter than usual offering today – things got rather busy, once the rain had cleared.… Read more
Day Twenty-Six in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Monday, August 6, 2018
Day Twenty-Six
Two new structures named
Orkney weather never plays fair.
It can lure you into a warm, relaxed fuzzy-type of feeling, then swiftly biff you in the back of… Read more
Day Twenty-Five in pictures…
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How the Ness is helping inspire a new generation of archaeologists
The dig this year is being closely followed from all the way down in Adelaide, South Australia.
Scotch College is a co-educational independent school with strong Scottish foundations established in… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, August 3, 2018
Day Twenty-Five
Axe find raises rain-dampened spirits
Today started eerily quiet.
A flat calm descended on the lochs which flank us and, across the waters, drifted the ghostly wails of… Read more
