Day Thirty-Three
Stone Age slow cooking…
A huge amount of planning, drawing and photography is taking place on site today — which is normal for the period running… Read more
Day Thirty-Two
Structure Twenty-Seven revelations
We are nearing the end of excavation for this year, with six days left of actual digging — including our Open Day on… Read more
Day Thirty-One
A building older than Structure Twenty-Seven?
“Execrable” is such a good word.
It described last Friday’s weather perfectly, so what do we say about today? Execrable plus?
It… Read more
Day Thirty
Decorated stones and technical wizardry
The weather is execrable today, utterly execrable.
There was heavy rain in the morning; heavier rain in the afternoon and we shudder to… Read more
Day Twenty-Nine
3D imaging to the rescue
Lots of interest today centred around Structure Twenty-Six, which has been painstakingly excavated by Claire and her team.
To the untrained… Read more
Day Twenty-Eight
‘Gruelling, but fantastic’
Work is continuing apace in Structure One, with the removal of the Phase Two curving wall which bisects the building.
We’re proud of our… Read more
Day Twenty-Seven
Wall’s path detected on a day of delights
Sometimes, just sometimes, there comes a flash of illumination like sunlight flooding the land with clarity and understanding.
It came… Read more
Day Twenty-Six
Water, water everywhere
It was supposed to rain this morning, so site director Nick kept the diggers away on the expectation that the rain would go away after… Read more
Day Twenty-Five
A box, an entrance and the revenge of Trench T
There were a number of interesting developments at the Ness today.
The first concerns an intriguing… Read more
Day Twenty-Four
Great walls and long-distance links
Orkney, or at least the part on which the Ness of Brodgar is situated, made a very passable imitation of the Malaysian jungle… Read more
Day Twenty-Three
Star find of the season so far
One of our nicest finds this year emerged today — a double pot found by Matt in Trench T.
This… Read more
Day Twenty-Two
Amidst a world of green and brown, loch and sky…
Interest is building over the possibilities contained within Trench J at the Ness, which itself holds the likely… Read more
Day Twenty-One
A meeting of minds
There is a good deal of yawning on site today, which has nothing to do with the sultry weather.
Neither is it connected, in… Read more
Day Nineteen
Provocative pits test patience!
Once hailed the “mystery trench”, Trench T is now being, more appropriately, described as the “insanely annoying trench”.
It is testing supervisor Ben… Read more
Day Eighteen
The ‘Great Wall’ revealed again
There used to be an element of fun about weather forecasts, especially in the bad old days when they were inaccurate.
Back then,… Read more
Day Seventeen
Curiouser and curiouser…
It is difficult to know where to begin today, as the Ness has become like a vast sweet shop, in which we greedy archaeological… Read more
Day Sixteen
Back to Trench J and the ‘Great Wall of Brodgar’
It is a chilly, wet Monday here at the Ness, but something new and exciting is happening.
After… Read more
Day Fifteen
Special guests and a first for the Ness!
Sadly, we must acknowledge that we have a tendency to complain. We object strongly when the wind is howling, when… Read more
Day Fourteen
Stonehenge-style ‘incense cup’ unearthed at the Ness
As forecast, it rained and rained today, and then rained some more.
There was no digging as diggers are valuable… Read more
Day Thirteen
The mystery object will be revealed – but tomorrow (maybe)
Yesterday, we were guilty of teasing you all, a little, with hints of something really interesting that… Read more
Day Twelve
‘Butterflies’ and jaunty angles
STOP PRESS — Exciting new discovery in last few minutes of today — all to be revealed tomorrow!
What a wonderful day, of both… Read more