Dig Diary – Friday, August 8, 2014
Day Twenty
Two weeks left!
This is the end of busy week four at the Ness and, horror of horrors, there are only two weeks left of the 2014 season.… Read more
Category: Excavation
Dig Diary – Thursday, August 7, 2014
Day Nineteen
The view from above . . .
We have a real treat for you today. With a wonderful, steady breeze, and with the sun streaming down, Hugo launched the “Flying… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Day Eighteen
A day of rain . . .
This is day two of the diary pottery special – largely because the Ness is being pounded, at the minute, by… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Day Seventeen
A glimpse of the Iron Age?
Today was pottery day at the Ness. Aren’t you lucky? Okay, we’re biased, but those who moan about yet another pottery sherd… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 4, 2014
Day Sixteen
Getting complicated in Structure One
Structure One has been primped and polished to within an inch of its life today and is looking beautiful.
Hugo took more excellent… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, August 1, 2014
Day Fifteen
Shetland connections
You may have heard of Skaill knives – those flakes of beach cobble used as throwaway blades and relatively common in Orkney, but not thus far… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 31, 2014
Day Fourteen
Drama of the highest order
This is something of a novelty. We do not often discuss human bone for the simple reason that it is rarely found on… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Day Thirteen
Midden matters
Okay, we have to admit it. Over the past few days there has been a tendency to stifle a yawn when Trench T is mentioned. Those… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Day Twelve
Arran pitchstone
One of the more unusual stones to be found at the Ness is pitchstone – that hard, black, glass-like volcanic material which originates 400 kilometres to… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 28, 2014
Day Eleven
A day of new arrivals
A new group of volunteers and students arrived on site today, many of them old faces from previous years, but all clearly excited… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 25, 2014
Day Ten
Colour in prehistory
We will start with an update on the activities of our very distinguished visitors from Spain.
Professors Mimi Bueno and Rodrigo de Balbin Behrmann are… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 24, 2014
Day Nine
Too hot? In Orkney?
We must admit it. Many of us have listened to the stories of colleagues who have worked in wonderful sunny countries like Greece or… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Day Eight
Carinated bowl in Structure Fourteen?
Today was pottery day at the Ness, and, oh, what pottery. The prize find came from Hugo’s Structure Fourteen and a location we have mentioned… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Day Seven
A busy day and a hot one
The sun has sizzled down on the Ness from early morning and now, as we prepare to finish off the day,… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 21, 2014
Day Six
Welcoming the Willamettes
Warm welcomes this morning to the students from Willamette University, Oregon, who have joined us for another year with their Professor, Scott Pike.
Scott is… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 18, 2014
Day Five
Hacked, but back . . .
It’s great to be back. Not that we have been anywhere in terms of the archaeology. The work at the Ness has… Read more
