Dig Diary Extra – More photographs of Structure Eight/Seventeen stone
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Alice and Lorna carefully remove the stone from the pier of Structure Seventeen inside Structure Eight. (Jo Bourne)
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The decoration of the face becomes clearer in the bright summer sunshine. (Jo Bourne)
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The stone is examined. (Jo Bourne)
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And carefully extracted from its resting place for the last five millennia. (Jo Bourne)
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Before the surface was carefully washed under the watchful eyes of dig director Nick and finds supervisor Anne. (Jo Bourne)