Dig Updates

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Day Forty Farewell and thank you all . . . That’s it folks. The wonderful Ness of Brodgar has returned ...
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Day Thirty-Nine From the Art Hut — an artist-in-residence special Karen Wallis This was my second year as an Artist ...
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Day Thirty-Eight The cover-up begins ...
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Day Thirty-Six The end is nigh... Tuesday dawned cold and windy and stayed that way. The wind is whistling in ...
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Day Thirty-Six Jaw-dropping visitor numbers It takes a lot for Ness of Brodgar jaws to drop, but that is what ...
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Day Thirty-Five A record-breaking open day The visitor record tumbled today as we welcomed almost 1,300 people to the Ness ...
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Day Thirty-Four Puzzling developments and another 'butterfly' stone Cleaning, planning and photography occupied much of today at the Ness, all ...
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Day Thirty-Three Stone Age slow cooking... A huge amount of planning, drawing and photography is taking place on site today ...
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Day Thirty-Two Structure Twenty-Seven revelations We are nearing the end of excavation for this year, with six days left of ...
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Day Thirty-One A building older than Structure Twenty-Seven? “Execrable” is such a good word. It described last Friday’s weather perfectly, ...
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Day Thirty Decorated stones and technical wizardry The weather is execrable today, utterly execrable. There was heavy rain in the ...
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