Dig Updates

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Day Two Sunshine and no midges! It is as inevitable as bone, stone and pot from the trenches. Yes, it’s ...
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Day One We're off again We’re back! July is here and so, with a cartwheeling of tyres and a snap ...
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Day Thirty-Nine The season has shifted - goodbye Ness of Brodgar Over the past days of final planning and section ...
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Day Thirty-Eight See you next year . . . The end, the absolute end, has arrived. For this year at ...
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Day Thirty-Seven Post-ex during the dig . . . One of the most popular members of the Ness team is ...
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Day Thirty-Six An unexpected discovery The sky over the Ness today was grey and overcast and so, unfortunately, was the ...
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Day Thirty-Five Thank you all . . . Sorry folks, there's no written diary today as we were just too busy ...
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Day Thirty-Four Activity on the Ness extended by new radiocarbon dates Today was a day for visitors - not just ...
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Trench X in three dimensions As mentioned in today's dig diary, Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark has been back on site today ...
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Day Thirty-Three Prehistoric seaweed? Maybe. But there's definitely more art... Today we have a mysterious object - a very mysterious ...
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