Video – Sunshine over Trench J
After a week of wet and windy weather, great progress was made in Trench J, and across the entire site, under bright sunshine today.… Read more
Monthly Archive: July 2019
Dig Diary – Monday, July 8, 2019
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.… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – A timber structure at the Ness site?
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… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 5, 2019
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… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 4, 2019
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… Read more
Video – Digging cancelled due to weather
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… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 3, 2019
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… Read more
Day Two in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 2, 2019
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… Read more
Video – Uncovering Trench P
Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.… Read more
Day One in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Monday, July 1, 2019
Day One
Rain, gales..oh my!
We’re back!
It hardly seems like ten months since we last saw the wonderful structures at the Ness of Brodgar in all their glory.
In… Read more
