Dig Updates

Picture: Jo Bourne
Day Twenty-One Monday, August 1, 2022 Some of our diggers have worked in hot countries, which is just as well ...
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(📷 Jo Bourne)
Day Twenty Sunday, July 31, 2022 That's been a busy day! Almost 1,000 people visited the Ness of Brodgar excavation ...
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Trench T. (Sigurd Towrie)
Day Nineteen Thursday, July 28, 2022 We start today with an important reminder. Because our open day is on Sunday, ...
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Day Eighteen Wednesday, July 28, 2022 It is an indisputable fact of archaeological life at the Ness that Structure Twenty-Seven ...
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Footage: Scott Pike
Two videos from Professor Scott Pike, of Willamette University, Oregon, USA, showing a drone ascent from Structure Twenty-Seven in Trench ...
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Day Seventeen Tuesday, July 26, 2022 We begin today with some momentous news. Excavating an orthostatic box in Structure Eight, ...
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Day Sixteen Monday, July 25, 2022 We know that we seem to have been unusually fixated on the weather in ...
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Trench P Model
Not all of Trench P has been opened this year, with Structures Twelve and Fourteen remaining under their protective covers ...
/ 3D Model, Excavation
Structure Eight entrance
Day Fifteen Friday, July 22, 2022 We have reached the end of week three. It seems that time appears to ...
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Picture: Scott Pike
A new model from Professor Scott Pike showing the northern end of Structure Eight, with Structure Eighteen, one of its ...
/ 3D Model, Excavation
Day Fourteen Thursday, July 21, 2022 Conditions at the Ness were grey and damp as the diggers began arriving on ...
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Day Thirteen Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Today at the Ness was cool, breezy and pleasant, making perfect conditions for digging ...
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