Dig Diary – Thursday, August 1, 2019
Day Twenty-Four
STOP PRESS – As seems to be typical this week, in the final minutes of work today, an axehead/macehead blank came up in the same area as this… Read more
Category: Excavation
A taste of things to come…
It’s been a frantically busy day on site today – but also an incredibly exciting one.
We’re busily putting together today’s dig diary and gathering hundreds of photographs from all… Read more
Day Twenty-Three in photos…
A few more photographs from today from Jo and Sigurd.
Click on any image for a larger version.… Read more
Trench P from above…
A few shots from this afternoon, courtesy of Professor Scott Pike. Click on any of the images for a larger version.… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – Trench X pottery spread
Some more images of Ceridwen painstaking excavation of a massive spread of broken pottery at the top of Trench X today.… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Day Twenty-Three
‘Grandaddy of all drains’ reaches 30-metre mark
Tell someone that one of the greatest highlights of this excavation season is a drain and you will get some strange… Read more
Day Twenty-Two in pictures…
A random selection of shots from today’s activities on site. As usual, click on any image for a larger version.
Photographs by Jo Bourne, Paul Durdin and Sigurd Towrie.… Read more
Going underground – pictures from the discovery of a massive drain beneath Structure Twelve
(Photographs by Jo Bourne)… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Day Twenty-Two
It’s a . . . drain – but an incredibly big one!
So here we are again. And the world waits with bated breath for news of yesterday’s… Read more
Day Twenty-One in pictures…
A small selection of photographs from across the site today. Pictures by Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
Click on any image for a larger version.… Read more
Video – Day Twenty-One: Around the Trenches
A brief snapshot of what was a busy day on site.… Read more
STOP PRESS – An exciting discovery…
Just as work for the day came to an end, an exciting discovery was made in the “Central Midden Area”, between Structures Eight and Twelve, and at the intersection of… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 29, 2019
Day Twenty-One
‘It’s just another manic Monday…’
Being a Monday, today is suitably manic. A large number of new recruits arrived on site this morning bright, eager, and in some… Read more
3d model of possible standing stone outside Structure Twelve
The annexe outside the eastern entrance to Structure Twelve, complete with possible standing stone. (Jim Bright)… Read more
Day Twenty in pictures….
The half-way mark was reached yesterday – just four weeks left of the 2019 excavation season. Pictures by Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
Click on any image for a larger… Read more
Focus on finds: arrowhead
Arrowhead fragment (📷 Ole Thoenies)
The Early Bronze Age barbed-and-tanged arrowhead found in the outer passage of Structure Ten in July 2017. (📷 ORCA)
On July 9, 2019, the tip… Read more
Another standing stone outside Structure Twelve?
Some images of the suspected standing stone outside the entrance to Structure Twelve.
The stone is buried deep within what we originally thought was a passage between Structures Twelve… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 26, 2019
Day Twenty
Structure Twenty-Seven looking resplendent from the air. Click the image for a larger version. (📷 Scott Pike)
A surprise in Jim’s ‘corner of loveliness’
Today marks the half-way… Read more
