Category: Excavation
Dig Diary — Friday, July 19, 2013
Day Five
It’s not often that we open with a pottery discovery.
Most archaeologists profess to dislike pottery (see Mai, below) and at the Ness it comes by the truckload,… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, July 18, 2013
Day Four
Film crews, sunshine and Mike’s head
Thursday at the Ness was a quieter, more measured sort of day, enveloped by sunshine and the persistent scrape of trowels on… Read more
Dig Diary — Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Day Three
Sorry, but we’re starting with the weather again.
After lulling everyone into a ridiculously sunny sense of security on Tuesday afternoon, the cloud and the rain rolled over… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Day Two
The day started wet and windy, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.
But hot baths, even hotter showers and, in one suspected case, a good hosing, seemed to… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, July 15, 2013
Day One
Off to a blustery start
Welcome to the Ness of Brodgar for another season of stunning Neolithic archaeology.
It’s hard to believe that almost a year has passed… Read more
Ness of Brodgar excavation dates 2013
Excavations on the Neolithic site on Ness of Brodgar, in Stenness, will resume on July 15, 2013, running until August 23.
During this time, the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology… Read more
New panoramic views of 2012 excavations
I’ve added links to Ken Stuart’s new, and wonderful, panoramas of the 2012 Ness of Brodgar excavation site.
The links can be found in the links panel to the right,… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Day Twenty-Seven
Well, it had to come. This is the last daily diary of the 2012 excavation season at the Ness.
We could expand at great length on all we… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, August 20, 2012
Day Twenty-Six
The end is nigh
If the morning was bright and breezy, the afternoon brought a pall of cloud, which hung over the site and reflected, to some degree,… Read more
Dig Diary — Sunday, August 19, 2012
Day Twenty-Five
A star attraction
We guess from the number of visitors we have attracted today that all of you reading this blog saw at first hand the excavations today!… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, August 16, 2012
Day Twenty-Four
With just a week left on site, and a good deal of that time to be taken up with planning and, eventually, the covering over of the site… Read more
Dig Diary — Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Day Twenty-Three
First of all, a confession . . .
We confess, here and now, in the presence of thousands of readers of the diary, out there in the archaeosphere,… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Day Twenty-Two
Thwarted by the elements
The weather has been an ever-present element in the diary this year, and for good reason.
Working out-of-doors quickly brings the realisation that it… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, August 13, 2012
Day Twenty-One
Regarding ‘dressers’
While removing the rubble near the end of the central east pier in Structure Fourteen, in the closing hour of today’s work, Neralie discovered another star… Read more
Dig Diary — Friday, August 10, 2012
Day Twenty
Paint and people
It is wonderful to see the expression on visitors’ faces when you explain that the folk of the Late Neolithic, who built the Ness complex,… Read more
