Diary extra – Structure Forty-Four from above(📷 Jim Rylatt) ...Read More Monday, July 27, 2026 / Excavation, Structures, Time TeamDig diary – Structure Forty‑Four christened and its monumental entrance revealedNick and Paul get started on the suspected entrance area this morning. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day 16Monday, July 27, 2026 ...Read More Monday, July 27, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – incised stone brings week three to a close in true Ness styleToday's decorated stone from the interior of the building. (📷 Anne Mitchell) Day 15Friday, July 24, 2026 Before excavation began ...Read More Friday, July 24, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – reaching the base of the central hearthJackie approaches the stone base of the central hearth. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day 14Thursday, July 23, 2026 Today the focus ...Read More Thursday, July 23, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – an external working area and possible rock artDrone shot of the trench at close of play today. (📷 Jim Rylatt) Day 13Wednesday, July 22, 2026 Another very ...Read More Wednesday, July 22, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – stratigraphic detective workWork gets under way at the western end of the trench this morning. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day 12Tuesday, July 21, ...Read More Tuesday, July 21, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – home is where the hearth isNick, Jim and Paul excavating in the vicinity of the hearth this afternoon. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day 11Monday, July 20, ...Read More Monday, July 20, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – gneiss, soil and a shadow of something taking shapeFresh from the trench - the Lewisian gneiss fragment from the north-western quadrant this morning. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day TenFriday, ...Read More Friday, July 17, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – has medieval ploughing erased most of our mysterious structure?Trench TT from above last night showing the oval footprint of the GPR anomaly. The dark rectangle in the north-western ...Read More Thursday, July 16, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – three quadrants exposedSite director Nick ponders the newly exposed south-eastern quadrant, while Paul and Jim set to removing more overlying material in ...Read More Wednesday, July 15, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – a planning marathon, orthostats, clay and Grooved WareDone for the day. Trench TT at close of play today. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day SevenTuesday, July 14, 2026 Patient ...Read More Tuesday, July 14, 2026 / Excavation, Time TeamDig diary – another slice of the anomaly and the axe that wasn’tMattocks out to removed the overlying layers of the south-eastern quadrant. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Day SixMonday, July 13, 2026 Another ...Read More Monday, July 13, 2026 / Excavation, Time Team1 2 3 … 71 ›