Dig Diary – Thursday, July 9, 2015
Day Four
The calm before another storm
Today has been quiet, but decidedly productive, on the Ness.
The weather has been perfectly decent, with the sun, and breezes, lulling us… Read more
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Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Day Three
Farewell, old friend . . .
Today was a momentous day at the Ness.
Not just because it stopped raining (more or less), but because a major transformation… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Day Two
And the rain came down
Today it rained. And rained, and rained and rained. Then it rained some more. It’s still raining.
It would be nice to report… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 6, 2015
Day One
We’re back and raring to go!
The tyres, black plastic and sandbags, which have protected 5,000 years of precious archaeology over the winter, are slowly being removed and… Read more
Calling would-be archaeologists . . . your chance to dig at the Ness
With the 2015 excavations on the Ness of Brodgar due to kick off next week, a call has gone out to youngsters who want to try their hand at archaeology.… Read more
Official Ness of Brodgar guidebook now available
The first book to tell the story of the Ness of Brodgar excavation site – from its discovery, in 2003, to the end of the 2014 excavation season – is… Read more
Where it all began . . .
Trawling though my photograph archive (while looking for something entirely different) I came across the original pictures, from April 8, 2003, of the discovery on the Ness that started it all!… Read more
‘Building up to a new season at the Ness of Brodgar’
A new article, written by Andrew Learmonth, about preparations for this season’s excavation has been posted on Orkney.com. Click here to read.… Read more
Dig director in Texas on lecture tour
Nick Card at work on site. (Picture: Jim Richardson)
The Ness of Brodgar excavation director was back in the USA in April, on a lecture tour brought about by last year’s article… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Day Twenty-Seven
Done for another year
That’s it, folks. With great sadness we have to say that this is the last dig diary of the 2014 season at the Ness.… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 18, 2014
Day Twenty-Six
Appeal for volunteers
We have job opportunities today, very rare ones, which only occur just once a year.
Yes, it is time to think again about the job… Read more
Dig Diary – Sunday, August 17, 2014
Day Twenty-Five
Wow, what a day!
The Ness always looks at its happiest when there are visitors around and today, our Open Day, they came in droves.
It was nice… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, August 14, 2014
Day Twenty-Four
Farewell Willamettes
Sadly, today is the last day for the Willamettes, that intrepid bunch of students from deepest darkest Oregon, led by their Professor, Scott Pike. They have… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Day Twenty-Three
A day of fantastic finds!
Today has seen the most fantastic finds emerge from the soils and midden of the Ness.
Not that this… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Day Twenty-Two
‘I bet that’s a standing stone’
Let’s wind back to the beginning of this year’s dig, when site director, Nick, and Structure Twelve supervisor, Jim, were standing musing… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 11, 2014
Day Twenty-One
Something special . . .
We promised you in the last blog that something special might be happening soon.
Well, it has only… Read more
