Monthly Archive: July 2019
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…
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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…
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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…
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Click any of the thumbnails for a larger version. Pictures by Jo and Sigurd.
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After a week of wet and windy weather, great progress was made in Trench J, and across the entire site, under bright sunshine today.…
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Day Six
Back to its happy self
What a difference a weekend makes. On Friday of last week we were soaked, chilled to the bone and generally emitting extreme misery.…
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Before another day of incessant rain forced us to call a halt to proceedings, work had started on extending Trench T to expose more of the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven.
The…
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Day Five
Rain rain go away…
Modern archaeology interacts with many other disciplines and our colleagues at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute are developing an international…
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Day Four
Beaten by the weather
Orkney’s weather is unpredictable to say the least but even hardened Orcadians were dismayed at the summer-time (allegedly!) conditions unleashed upon us today.
It…
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Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn’t been kind to us at all so far this year, but was so bad today that all digging operations had to…
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Day Three
Plagued by wind and rain…
In most of Britain the sun is shining. In the United States some folk are suffering a heatwave and in Europe the frazzled survivors…
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Day Two
Water, water everywhere…
After the excitement and manual labour of day one, day two was just manual labour. There were tyres and sandbags to move and the swathes…
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Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.…
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