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Day Twenty-Nine in pictures…

Thursday, August 8, 2019

A few photographs from today by Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.

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Alice and Declan at the 'drain hole' outside Structure Twelve's northern entrance.

Merel in light blue jacket reveals a rubble spread in the Central Midden Area, with Catherine.

A sherd of decorated pottery from the area between Structures Twelve and Thirty.

This afternoon's tour group make their way to Trench T.

Sierra on the Total Station.

Michaela excavating a midden layer in Trench J.

Travis in Structure Thirty-Two to the south-west of Trench J.

Claire carefully washing the cupmarked stone recovered from the cell outside the eastern entrance to Structure Twelve.

Mary and Brett expose the demolition layer of the eastern wall of Structure Twenty-Seven.

The beautifully constructed southern drain leading from Structure Twenty-Seven in Trench T.

The 5.44 metre long orthostat placed against the interior wall of Structure Twenty-Seven to provide a base of interior stone cladding.

The few remaining, broken slabs that formed the interior cladding of Structure Twenty-Seven.

The robbed out western wall of Structure Twenty-Seven.

Structure Twenty-Seven from the north.

Looking towards Structure Twelve over Structure Twenty-Six.

The paved walkway that encircled Structure Ten, with the remains of the surrounding wall.

Fionn, from Orkney.com, on site this afternoon.

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