Day Three
First find of the season
Today, Trench T was opened, and in remarkably fast order. One minute it was wrapped in its winter sleep, and the next minute… Read more
Day Two
After the excitement and heavy manual labour of yesterday, Day Two is usually characterised by just heavy manual labour.
The metamorphosis of the Ness from black-shrouded ancient to… Read more
Day One
And we’re back . . .
Welcome to the Ness of Brodgar for another season of the most fantastic archaeology in Northern Europe. Over the next six weeks,… Read more
It has been a good week for Orkney’s archaeology. On the same day that the Links of Notland was awarded the “Best Rescue Dig” award at the 2014 Current Archaeology Awards, it was confirmed that… Read more
The cost of running an archaeological excavation is considerable.
The Ness of Brodgar, for example, costs in the region of £2,000 per day — a fact that has meant that… Read more
The ongoing excavations – and the cost – on the Ness of Brodgar feature in an interesting article on Orkney’s archaeology, from The Economist.
Click here to read.… Read more
Day Twenty-Eight
Thank you and goodbye
Sorry, folks. The end is not nigh — it has arrived.
This is the last diary for the 2013 excavation season at the Ness… Read more
Day Twenty-Seven
There’s no doubt that one of the glories of the Ness is the incised stone. It is literally everywhere on the site, in all sorts of contexts and… Read more
Day Twenty-Six
Today is a race against time, with the last week of excavation already started and a large amount of necessary finalising work still to be carried out.
Sunday’s appalling… Read more
Day Twenty-Four
As many of you already know, the pottery at the Ness ranges in size from the gigantic to the tiny.
Today, we bring you news of one of… Read more
Day Twenty-Three
Today was lovely and sunny. The sun shone brightly, and in particular, on our veteran digger Mic, who is working in the annex to Structure Twelve.
Mic is… Read more
Day Twenty-Two
Contemplating an earlier site . . .
Today was one of those quiet, rather contemplative days, which often characterise the second-last week of an excavation.
The last week… Read more
Day Twenty-One
‘A tremendous mystery’
Today, we have the revenge of Trench T.
Not through Egyptian-style curses, or even through unexpected and catastrophic falls of… Read more