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Diary extra – views from the ground and up above

Friday, July 19, 2024 (10:39 PM)

Trenches P and J from above. (📷 Scott Pike)

The south-eastern end of the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Scott Pike)

The south-eastern end of the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Scott Pike)

Trenches P and T this afternoon. (📷 Scott Pike)

Strructure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Scott Pike)

Strructure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Scott Pike)

Strructure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Scott Pike)

Strructure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Scott Pike)

Strructure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Scott Pike)

Strructure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Scott Pike)

Work under way in Structure Twenty-Seven this afternoon. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

Work under way in Structure Twenty-Seven this afternoon. (📷 Scott Pike)

Work under way in Structure Twenty-Seven this afternoon. (📷 Scott Pike)

The last of the UHI Archaeology Institute students outside Trench Z this afternoon, at the end of their two-week field school. (📷 Scott Pike)

Trench Z. (📷 Scott Pike)

Ray with McKenna and Hamish in Structure Seventeen. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

Former Willamette student Rowan in Structure Ten on her last day on site. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

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