Dig Updates

Day Six Bronze Age pottery We will begin today, as we did on Friday, with pottery. You may recall we ...
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More from Hugo's kite-cam ...
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Day Five It’s not often that we open with a pottery discovery. Most archaeologists profess to dislike pottery (see Mai, ...
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Day Four Film crews, sunshine and Mike's head Thursday at the Ness was a quieter, more measured sort of day, ...
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Day Three Sorry, but we're starting with the weather again. After lulling everyone into a ridiculously sunny sense of security ...
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Day Two The day started wet and windy, to the surprise of absolutely nobody. But hot baths, even hotter showers ...
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Day One Off to a blustery start Welcome to the Ness of Brodgar for another season of stunning Neolithic archaeology ...
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Excavations on the Neolithic site on Ness of Brodgar, in Stenness, will resume on July 15, 2013, running until August ...
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I've added links to Ken Stuart's new, and wonderful, panoramas of the 2012 Ness of Brodgar excavation site. The links ...
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Day Twenty-Seven Well, it had to come. This is the last daily diary of the 2012 excavation season at the ...
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Day Twenty-Six The end is nigh If the morning was bright and breezy, the afternoon brought a pall of cloud, ...
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Day Twenty-Five A star attraction We guess from the number of visitors we have attracted today that all of you ...
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