Dig Diary – Sunday, August 17, 2014Day Twenty-Five Wow, what a day! The Ness always looks at its happiest when there are visitors around and today, ...Read More Sunday, August 17, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Thursday, August 14, 2014Day Twenty-Four Farewell Willamettes Sadly, today is the last day for the Willamettes, that intrepid bunch of students from deepest ...Read More Thursday, August 14, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Wednesday, August 13, 2014Day Twenty-Three A day of fantastic finds! Today has seen the most fantastic finds emerge from the soils and midden ...Read More Wednesday, August 13, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Tuesday, August 12, 2014Day Twenty-Two 'I bet that's a standing stone' Let’s wind back to the beginning of this year's dig, when site ...Read More Tuesday, August 12, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Monday, August 11, 2014Day Twenty-One Something special . . . We promised you in the last blog that something special might be happening ...Read More Monday, August 11, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Friday, August 8, 2014Day Twenty Two weeks left! This is the end of busy week four at the Ness and, horror of horrors, ...Read More Friday, August 8, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Thursday, August 7, 2014Day Nineteen The view from above . . . We have a real treat for you today. With a wonderful, steady breeze, ...Read More Thursday, August 7, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Wednesday, August 6, 2014Day Eighteen A day of rain . . . This is day two of the diary pottery special - largely ...Read More Wednesday, August 6, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Tuesday, August 5, 2014Day Seventeen A glimpse of the Iron Age? Today was pottery day at the Ness. Aren’t you lucky? Okay, we’re ...Read More Tuesday, August 5, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Monday, August 4, 2014Day Sixteen Getting complicated in Structure One Structure One has been primped and polished to within an inch of its ...Read More Monday, August 4, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Friday, August 1, 2014Day Fifteen Shetland connections You may have heard of Skaill knives - those flakes of beach cobble used as throwaway blades ...Read More Friday, August 1, 2014 / ExcavationDig Diary – Thursday, July 31, 2014Day Fourteen Drama of the highest order This is something of a novelty. We do not often discuss human bone ...Read More Thursday, July 31, 2014 / Excavation‹ 1 … 51 52 53 54 55 … 63 ›