Dig Updates

Day Twenty-Four With just a week left on site, and a good deal of that time to be taken up ...
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Close up of the exquisite polished stone axe.
Day Twenty-Three First of all, a confession . . . We confess, here and now, in the presence of thousands ...
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Day Twenty-Two Thwarted by the elements The weather has been an ever-present element in the diary this year, and for ...
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Day Twenty-One Regarding 'dressers' While removing the rubble near the end of the central east pier in Structure Fourteen, in ...
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Day Twenty Paint and people It is wonderful to see the expression on visitors’ faces when you explain that the ...
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Day Nineteen The finds hut on the Ness is a small, wooden hut, containing finds supervisor Anne, her assistants Scott ...
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Final clean for photos in Structure Ten.
Day Eighteen We’ll start today with the star find - a find that caused great excitement and led to our ...
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Young archaeologists in the making.
Day Seventeen After the torrential rain of yesterday, this has been one of these calm, slightly claustrophobic days at the ...
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Day Sixteen And the rain came down . . . Oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear ...
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St 1 as viewed from Andre's mini-helicopter - fantastic
Day Fifteen Today, Friday, was a day of excellent archaeology and jaw-dropping technology to assist with the site recording. Mark, ...
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Erica investiates the realignment of the outer wall of St 1.
Day Fourteen Today, we will start with the best, the very best, find we have had in a while. Professor ...
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Aerial view of the Ness of Brodgar excavations. July 2012. © RCAHMS. Licensor www.rcahms.gov.uk.
The above aerial shot, taken by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), shows the ...
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