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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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