Day Twenty-Eight
A tale of two orthostats…
Structure Twenty-Six is one of the oddest buildings we have excavated at the Ness.
It is a peculiar shape, with walling which at… Read more
Day Twenty-Seven
More axes from opposite ends of the site
There is something about polished stone axes. We know that many of them were utilitarian items, something like the Swiss… Read more
Day Twenty-Six
Two new structures named
Orkney weather never plays fair.
It can lure you into a warm, relaxed fuzzy-type of feeling, then swiftly biff you in the back of… Read more
Day Twenty-Five
Axe find raises rain-dampened spirits
Today started eerily quiet.
A flat calm descended on the lochs which flank us and, across the waters, drifted the ghostly wails of… Read more
Day Twenty-Four
Structure Eight bling, site finds and a cry for help…
One of the abiding difficulties of writing diaries day after day is to seize the attention of you,… Read more