Dig Updates

Day Twenty-Nine 3D imaging to the rescue Lots of interest today centred around Structure Twenty-Six, which has been painstakingly excavated ...
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Day Twenty-Eight 'Gruelling, but fantastic' Work is continuing apace in Structure One, with the removal of the Phase Two curving ...
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Day Twenty-Seven Wall's path detected on a day of delights Sometimes, just sometimes, there comes a flash of illumination like ...
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Day Twenty-Six Water, water everywhere It was supposed to rain this morning, so site director Nick kept the diggers away ...
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Day Twenty-Five A box, an entrance and the revenge of Trench T There were a number of interesting developments at ...
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Day Twenty-Four Great walls and long-distance links Orkney, or at least the part on which the Ness of Brodgar is ...
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Day Twenty-Three Star find of the season so far One of our nicest finds this year emerged today — a ...
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Day Twenty-Two Amidst a world of green and brown, loch and sky... Interest is building over the possibilities contained within ...
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Day Twenty-One A meeting of minds There is a good deal of yawning on site today, which has nothing to ...
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Day Twenty At the centre... Alice Albinia on site. (📷 Jo Bourne) It’s commonplace to remember the first lines of ...
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Day Nineteen Provocative pits test patience! Once hailed the “mystery trench”, Trench T is now being, more appropriately, described as ...
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Day Eighteen The 'Great Wall' revealed again There used to be an element of fun about weather forecasts, especially in ...
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