Author: Sigurd
Dig Diary — Friday, August 9
Day Twenty
The stone robbers
Structure Ten may have lost much of its internal walling to stone robbing in the distant past, but a clearer understanding of this dramatic structure… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, August 8, 2013
Day Nineteen
Today has been a good deal quieter than yesterday, which is just as well because extreme excitement (carved stone ball), extreme heat (all day) and extreme exertion (normal… Read more
Dig Diary — Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Day Eighteen
The repertoire complete . . .
We have found a carved stone ball!
There you have it. We have ransacked our store of superlatives, but the extraordinary nature… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Day Seventeen
We are delighted to announce that we have a new building.
Site director Nick and Structure Twelve supervisor, Jim, were there at the birth this morning, indeed acting… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, August 5, 2013
Day Sixteen
A law of archaeology . . .
. . . when the sun is beating down and everyone is feeling a little, well, exhausted, things start happening.
Sunny Monday… Read more
Dig Diary — Friday, August 2, 2013
Day Fifteen
A plan for Trench T
Just in case the good folk of Trench T feel a little neglected, while the world’s media and, more importantly this blog, concentrates on… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, August 1, 2013
Day Fourteen
There is a strange meteorological process in Orkney which is seen nowhere else in the world.
It occurs when, by a sort of wind-borne osmosis, the very air… Read more
Dig Diary — Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Day Thirteen
The finest so far
Mike is indeed a very lucky man – not just one piece of art but now perhaps the finest piece of art we have… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Day Twelve
We detect some of the visiting students and diggers on site looking at us Orkney residents today with a sort of new, and wondering, respect — as in… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, July 29, 2013
Day Eleven
A strange sort of sticky goo is leaking from the screen of the laptop on which this blog is being written.
That’s how hot it is.
Truth to… Read more
Dig Diary — Friday, July 26, 2013
Day Ten
As delicate operations go, the lifting of large and crumbling bits of pottery is just about as delicate as it gets.
Our visitor, Peter Brigham, and his wife,… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, July 25, 2013
Day Nine
We told you in the last post about Jo’s fantastic inscribed stone from the northern end of Structure Twelve.
Just a quick look at, it late yesterday afternoon, failed… Read more
Dig Diary — Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Day Eight
Trench T, the new one on the far side of the house from the main site, is living up to the family tradition.
In other words, it is… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Day Seven
Today is nice and sunny at the Ness.
We appear to be in a little bubble of brightness, with dark and angry clouds lurking on the horizon, but… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, July 22, 2013
Day Six
Bronze Age pottery
We will begin today, as we did on Friday, with pottery.
You may recall we showed a photograph of an incised pot rim from under… Read more
Dig Diary — Friday, July 19, 2013
Day Five
It’s not often that we open with a pottery discovery.
Most archaeologists profess to dislike pottery (see Mai, below) and at the Ness it comes by the truckload,… Read more
