After yesterday’s discovery, we thought it couldn’t get any better.
Then today, as the weary excavators began making their way home, the Structure Eight team emerged from the building clutching… Read more
Day Twelve
A definite air of anticipation…
Another day of splendid weather (mostly) saw great progress made all across the Ness today.
And after yesterday’s discovery of the incised stone… Read more
Structure Eight – or more correctly an earlier building lying beneath it – produced another stunning example of Neolithic decorate stone today.
The stone, pictured above, was spotted by Lorna… Read more
Day Eleven
Glorious sunshine greets new arrivals
Today is sunny, hot and one of those exceedingly rare Orkney days when the wind has decided to go elsewhere.
It has been… Read more
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All… Read more
Better late than never. A selection of pictures from yesterday’s activities on site. Click on a thumbnail for a larger version.
Photographs by Jo Bourne, Emily O’Farrell and Sigurd Towrie.… Read more
Work this week suggested there might be a passageway aligned with the original eastern entrance to Structure Twelve (an entrance that stayed in use throughout the life of the building… Read more
Day Ten
Back in the trenches
Yesterday, in a nutshell, was a day of hard labour, brought about by the foul weather conditions.
Today, on the other hand, it was… Read more
In a rare occurence the weather cleared this evening. Here are three drone photographs from above, courtesy of dig director Nick.
Click on the images for larger versions.… Read more
If you have visited the Ness, the chances are you will have seen one of the 90,000 pot fragments recovered from the site to date.
But if you have ever… Read more
Day Nine
Extensions, extensions…
Today started wet and miserable and there were serious doubts as to whether any excavation would be possible at all.
Thankfully the threatened thunderstorms etc. held… Read more
Day Eight
Entrances and passageways
Archaeology is in full flow today, only slightly hindered by the hot and sticky weather which seems to have dumped copious amounts of rain on… Read more
Day Seven
A damp, but exciting, day…
We ended yesterday’s diary with a defiant challenge to the weather gods.
Now that we’re all home, clean, warm and in dry clothes… Read more