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Thursday, August 9, 2018

Dig Diary – Thursday, August 9, 2018

Day Twenty-Nine Joining the dots in ‘bling central’ We haven’t mentioned Structure Eight much lately. Formerly known as “bling central” because of the extravagance of the artefacts found within it… Read more

Excavation

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Day Twenty-Eight in pictures…

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Excavation / Video

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Video – From the Trenches

Excavation

Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 8, 2018

Day Twenty-Eight A tale of two orthostats… Structure Twenty-Six is one of the oddest buildings we have excavated at the Ness. It is a peculiar shape, with walling which at… Read more

Excavation

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Day Twenty-Seven in pictures…

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Excavation

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 7, 2018

Day Twenty-Seven More axes from opposite ends of the site There is something about polished stone axes. We know that many of them were utilitarian items, something like the Swiss… Read more

Excavation

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Ness from above…

Two shots, courtesy of Scott’s drone, of the Ness of Brodgar today.… Read more

3D Model / Excavation

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

3D model – Trench J

3D Model / Excavation

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

3D model – Grooved Ware pot from Trench J

The pot found and excavated by Ray in the Trench J extension on Monday afternoon.… Read more

Excavation / Video

Monday, August 6, 2018

Video – From the trenches

A shorter than usual offering today – things got rather busy, once the rain had cleared.… Read more

Excavation

Monday, August 6, 2018

Day Twenty-Six in pictures…

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Emmanuelle, Mike and Marcus hard at work in the latest extension to Trench Y.

Excavation

Monday, August 6, 2018

Dig Diary – Monday, August 6, 2018

Day Twenty-Six Two new structures named Orkney weather never plays fair. It can lure you into a warm, relaxed fuzzy-type of feeling, then swiftly biff you in the back of… Read more