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Diary extra – day thirty-five in pictures

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 (9:12 PM)

A few photos from today, taken in between the heavy showers, from Jo Bourne and Paul Durdin…

Ominous skies over the Lochview standing stones. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Alice photographing animal bone in Structure Seventeen. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Site director Nick joins the Twelve team at tea-break. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Sara with her second hollowed cobble of the week. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Sara with her second hollowed cobble of the week. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Aaron and Lindsay in Trench J. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Ben with one of the animal bones in Structure Thirty-Four. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Structure Twenty-Seven covered over. (📷 Jo Bourne)
The animal bone keeps coming from Structure Twenty-Seven. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Anne at work in the finds hut. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Emma spots a rainbow on her last day at the Ness. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Emma's rainbow. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Catching up on paperwork during one of the day's heavy showers. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Sarah, Olivia and Ray take shelter in the tool shed. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Back to the toolshed. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Elena, Paul and Travis at home time. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Heading home early after rain stopped play this afternoon. (📷 Paul Durdin)

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