2010 Ness excavation report available to download
The next in our series of Data Structure Reports (DSRs) is now available, with the 2010 document free to download here.
A DSR is a technical excavation report – an intermediate summary to define the results, initial interpretation and questions that assist developing in post-excavation analysis and subsequent strategy.
It must be stressed that the document is report of its day and our interpretation of the site has evolved considerably over the last two decades.
Excavation in 2010 focused on Trench P. The main aims were:
- Uncover the full extent of Structures Eight and Ten and to expose floor deposits within those buildings.
- To further investigate the structural sequence of Structure One, which had been partially uncovered by GUARD in 2003.
- To investigate a large geophysical anomaly (Structure Twelve) just to the south of Trench P. This had been considered, due to similarities in its alignment to Structure Eight, that it could form the southern end of that building.
- To explore the nature and primary levels of these structures; and to see how they relate to other elements of the site and of the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’.
- Work also continued in Trench R with the aim of investigating further the structural remains, and in particular, the large wall (the ‘Lesser Wall of Brodgar’) revealed in 2009.
