Video – Digging cancelled due to weather
Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn’t been kind to us at all so far this year, but was so bad today that all digging operations had to… Read more
Category: Excavation
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Day Three
Plagued by wind and rain…
In most of Britain the sun is shining. In the United States some folk are suffering a heatwave and in Europe the frazzled survivors… Read more
Day Two in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 2, 2019
Day Two
Water, water everywhere…
After the excitement and manual labour of day one, day two was just manual labour. There were tyres and sandbags to move and the swathes… Read more
Video – Uncovering Trench P
Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.… Read more
Day One in pictures…
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Dig Diary – Monday, July 1, 2019
Day One
Rain, gales..oh my!
We’re back!
It hardly seems like ten months since we last saw the wonderful structures at the Ness of Brodgar in all their glory.
In… Read more
All set for 2019 excavation season…
Archaeologists and volunteers will return to the Ness of Brodgar next week for the thirteenth year of excavation. The covers come off the trenches on July 1, with the site… Read more
‘The Appliance of Science’ – pre-dig lecture available online
Last week’s pre-excavation lecture, in Kirkwall, by site director Nick Card.
The talk, hosted by the Orkney Archaeology Society, was entitled The Appliance of Science.… Read more
Can you help us uncover the site?
With just one week to go before excavation resumes, we’re appealing for help from anyone free on July 1 and 2.
To re-open the Ness for the 2019 season, we… Read more
‘The First Digger at the Ness of Brodgar’
A new blog post from Pat Long: https://www.aboutorkney.com/2019/06/15/the-first-digger-at-the-ness-of-brodgar/… Read more
Eagle-eyed Travis brings Ness pitchstone total to 25
That well known finds magnet strikes again…
Travis, known to some of you from last years on site blog where he gained the reputation for finding several beautiful artefacts, has… Read more
Structure One produces third mat-impressed pot base
There was delight in the Ness pottery HQ this summer when two examples of pot bases, clearly imprinted with the marks of a basketry mat, were recovered – one from… Read more
The Summer Wind – Ness excavation 2013
The 2018 excavation season was blessed with nearly two months of uninterrupted sunshine and fair weather.
How easy it is to forget how bad conditions can be on site –… Read more
Trench J in 3D
An updated model of Trench J – containing Structure Five and a section of the “Great Wall of Brodgar” – created by supervisor Paul at the end of this season’s… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Day Thirty-Eight
That’s all folks!
Well folks, that’s it.
The 2018 dig season at the Ness is now over.
Trowels have been replaced with tyres and the huge task of… Read more
