Author: Sigurd

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Dig Diary Special – Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Day Twenty-Three Back in the lab with geoarchaeologist Jo Jo McKenzie with a near-perfect sample through the floors of Structure Eight – carefully balanced on the cake-slice used to extract… Read more

Excavation

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Day Twenty-Two Big buildings and another very big beast So much has happened today that it’s difficult to know where to start. Perhaps the beginning would be best and, as… Read more

Excavation

Monday, August 1, 2016

Dig Diary – Monday, August 1, 2016

Day Twenty-One Watched by a drone above . . . Somehow you never imagine, when embarking on a career in archaeology, that the regulations of the Civil Aviation Authority will… Read more

Excavation

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Dig Diary – Sunday, July 31, 2016

Day Twenty The year’s first open day What a day! We were promised mainly dry weather but the wind blew and the showers just kept on coming – but still… Read more

Excavation

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Diary Extra – A drone’s eye view of Trench P

3D Model / Excavation

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Diary Extra – 3D reconstruction of a complete pillow stone

Today saw the discovery of another pillow stone at the Ness, although the latest find, from Trench X, was broken. One of the other, complete, pillow stones found on site… Read more

Excavation

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Dig Diary – Thursday, July 28, 2016

Day Nineteen The covers come off Structure Twelve after another morning of rain. Structure Eight’s rosette stone The newly discovered decorated stone from Structure Eight. Like yesterday, as the day… Read more

Excavation

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Day Eighteen A macehead and an anvil stone As the blog was being put together, at the end of the day, Trench X produced another… Read more

Excavation

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Day Seventeen The structure with no name . . . Today was a day of head-scratching and complexities in more than one of the Ness structures. In the ominously-named Trench… Read more

Excavation

Monday, July 25, 2016

Dig Diary – Monday, July 25, 2016

Day Sixteen Hearths, magnetism and old friends… One of the great pleasures of summer at the Ness is welcoming back those who have worked here… Read more

News

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Diary Extra – Sunday, July 24, 2016

From Orkney to the Fens, our ancient past is coming alive As mentioned on Friday, the Ness excavation site was visited by Kevin McKenna, a senior feature writer for The… Read more

Excavation

Friday, July 22, 2016

Dig Diary – Friday, July 22, 2016

Day Fifteen Ending week three with a day of discovery Today was a day of discoveries at the Ness and some of them have been really exciting. The most sensational was the… Read more

Excavation

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Diary Extra – Thursday, July 21, 2016

Some views from above Time of another three of Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark’s panoramas, taken today, from high above various locations in Trench P. The first was taken from directly above… Read more

Excavation

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Dig Diary – Thursday, July 21, 2016

Day Fourteen More bone and a second notched stone Miracle of miracles! A very nice lady visited the Ness today, seized the diary by the arm and insisted that there… Read more

3D Model

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Diary Extra – Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Around the world in 80 models . . . Regular diary readers will have seen Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark’s marvellous 3D reproductions of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site, as well as… Read more

Excavation

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Day Thirteen Human remains under Structure Ten Our determination to talk about the weather yesterday has come back to bite us with a vengeance. We had barely… Read more