Dig Updates

Day Thirty-Two There's art in those stones... We’re going to start today with heartiest congratulations to two of our stalwarts ...
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Day Thirty-One Reusing a stone circle? We are worried about the BBC. The team filming the Ness excavations arrived in ...
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Day Thirty The Ness is alive, with the sound of 'chambered' . . . The Ness of Brodgar is suffused ...
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Getting to grips with geomatics Although to most visitors of the Ness of Brodgar we might appear like either brightly-coloured ...
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Day Twenty-Eight A veritable 'Day of Stone' Today was a day of solid, undiluted archaeology. As site director Nick describes ...
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Day Twenty-Seven What lies beneath Structure Ten's sandstone blocks? Sorry folks, we’re starting with the weather again, but for a ...
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Day Twenty-Six Decorating the stones as the walls were built . . . If any dear readers are fed up ...
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Day Twenty-Five Astounding generosity and a daunting discovery . . . We have two huge events to report today. The ...
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Day Twenty-Four Some things becomes clearer, others don't . . . Resilience is the hallmark of many archaeologists. It has ...
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Day Twenty-Three Back in the lab with geoarchaeologist Jo Hi everyone. It’s Jo McKenzie here – as seen in some ...
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Day Twenty-Two Big buildings and another very big beast So much has happened today that it’s difficult to know where ...
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Day Twenty-One Watched by a drone above . . . Somehow you never imagine, when embarking on a career in ...
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