Dig Updates

Day Eighteen The repertoire complete . . . We have found a carved stone ball! There you have it. We ...
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Day Seventeen We are delighted to announce that we have a new building. Site director Nick and Structure Twelve supervisor, ...
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Day Sixteen A law of archaeology . . . . . . when the sun is beating down and everyone is ...
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Day Fifteen A plan for Trench T Just in case the good folk of Trench T feel a little neglected, ...
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Day Fourteen There is a strange meteorological process in Orkney which is seen nowhere else in the world. It occurs ...
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Day Thirteen The finest so far Mike is indeed a very lucky man – not just one piece of art ...
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Day Twelve We detect some of the visiting students and diggers on site looking at us Orkney residents today with ...
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Day Eleven A strange sort of sticky goo is leaking from the screen of the laptop on which this blog ...
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Day Ten As delicate operations go, the lifting of large and crumbling bits of pottery is just about as delicate ...
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Day Nine We told you in the last post about Jo’s fantastic inscribed stone from the northern end of Structure Twelve ...
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Day Eight Trench T, the new one on the far side of the house from the main site, is living ...
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Day Seven Today is nice and sunny at the Ness. We appear to be in a little bubble of brightness, ...
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