We've got a blast from the past this evening after recovering a forgotten (and assumed lost) cache of video footage from a defunct hard drive. Read more
August 2023: Excavation in Trench T. (📷 Doug Plummer)
The dates for next year’s excavation – the final season of fieldwork at the Ness – have been set.
Provided our… Read more
The work to start covering over the trenches for the winter got under way this morning and although we didn’t manage to complete all the structures, we made a great… Read more
Paul, Allyson and Estella stacking tyres by the side of Trench P. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Day Thirty-ThreeWednesday, August 16, 2023
That’s all folks – the 2022 excavation season at the… Read more
Nick J. excavating around the timber deposit to the north of Structure Twenty’s exposed pier. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Day Thirty-TwoTuesday, August 15, 2023
Kristina excavating the pit inside Structure Eight’s… Read more
Paul Durdin’s latest 3d model – the rhodochrosite pillowstone fragment from Structure Thirty today.
Two other rhodochrosite pillowstones have been found on site – both in Structure Eight in 2011… Read more
Ceiridwen and the beautiful flint knife she found this afternoon. (📷 Ceiridwen Blakely)
Day Thirty-OneMonday, August 14, 2023
Where does the time go!
Here we are in the final week… Read more
Seeking shelter from the deluge in the supervisors’ hut. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Day ThirtyFriday, August 11, 2023
Louise with the sherd of what may be very early pottery she found… Read more
The Ness team gather for a group picture. (📷 Scott Pike)
Day Twenty-NineThursday, August 10, 2023
Today was photography day, so it began with yet more cleaning – sprucing up… Read more
Another new model from Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin.
Organic materials do not survive well in the acidic soil conditions at the Ness of Brodgar, so the regular appearance of… Read more
Slow and steady. Elena at work on the timber plank in Structure Twenty-Seven this afternoon. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Day Twenty-EightWednesday, August 9, 2023
Today, it was all hands on deck… Read more
A new photogrammetric model from Paul Durdin showing a section of the exposed walls and pier of Structure Twenty, the confirmed building lying beneath Structure Ten.… Read more
The incised ‘Brodgar Butterfly’ motif found by Ceiridwen today. (📷 Tom O’Brien)
Day Twenty-SevenTuesday, August 8, 2023
As we suspected it might, more incised, decorated stone has been popping up… Read more
Day Twenty-Six
Monday, August 7, 2023
Week six dawned bright and sunny.
What an absolutely gorgeous day to welcome a few new diggers on site!
And it remained so the… Read more
Day Twenty-Five
Friday, August 4, 2023
Here we are at the end of week five. Just two more to go before the site is closed for the winter.
You’d be… Read more
Two of the timber fragments under the microscope. (📷 Jen Miller)
Day Twenty-FourThursday, August 3, 2023
Regular readers will know that the preservation of organic material at the Ness is… Read more