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Diary extra – day thirty-four in pictures

Tuesday, August 6, 2024 (9:25 PM)

A selection of today’s photographs from Jo Bourne…

Sigurd's bumper 11am tour. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Jenna and Emma with reveal Structure Forty's drain. (📷 Andy Boyar)

Tom in Structure Twelve, examining the orthostatic packing in the north-eastern alcove. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Eponine in Structure Twelve, excavating the Structure Twenty-Eight demolition deposits in the south-eastern alcove, looking for evidence of the early building's south-eastern buttress. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Eponine in Structure Twelve, excavating the Structure Twenty-Eight demolition deposits in the south-eastern alcove, looking for evidence of the early building's south-eastern buttress. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Still in Structure Twelve, Eleanor removing ash deposits from the eastern entrance passage. (📷 Jo Bourne)

The Structure Eight team filmed by Mark Jenkins. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Megan and stonemason Andrew, from Somerset, at work on a Ness memorial stone. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Ceiridwen and Keeley at work in Structure Seventeen. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Kristina excavating the floor of Structure Seventeen. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Aden and Becca at work between Structures Eight and Sixteen. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Andy and Jenna in the south end of Structure One. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Sara pauses to examine the quernstone removed from Structure Twelve's eastern annexe. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Floor sampling continues in Structure Five. (📷 Jo Bourne)

Still at it! Tom excavating animal remains at the north-western corner of Structure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)

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