Dig Updates

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