Dig Diary — Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Day Twenty-Seven
Well, it had to come. This is the last daily diary of the 2012 excavation season at the Ness.
We could expand at great length on all we… Read more
Monthly Archive: August 2012
Dig Diary — Monday, August 20, 2012
Day Twenty-Six
The end is nigh
If the morning was bright and breezy, the afternoon brought a pall of cloud, which hung over the site and reflected, to some degree,… Read more
Dig Diary — Sunday, August 19, 2012
Day Twenty-Five
A star attraction
We guess from the number of visitors we have attracted today that all of you reading this blog saw at first hand the excavations today!… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, August 16, 2012
Day Twenty-Four
With just a week left on site, and a good deal of that time to be taken up with planning and, eventually, the covering over of the site… Read more
Dig Diary — Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Day Twenty-Three
First of all, a confession . . .
We confess, here and now, in the presence of thousands of readers of the diary, out there in the archaeosphere,… Read more
Dig Diary — Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Day Twenty-Two
Thwarted by the elements
The weather has been an ever-present element in the diary this year, and for good reason.
Working out-of-doors quickly brings the realisation that it… Read more
Dig Diary — Monday, August 13, 2012
Day Twenty-One
Regarding ‘dressers’
While removing the rubble near the end of the central east pier in Structure Fourteen, in the closing hour of today’s work, Neralie discovered another star… Read more
Dig Diary — Friday, August 10, 2012
Day Twenty
Paint and people
It is wonderful to see the expression on visitors’ faces when you explain that the folk of the Late Neolithic, who built the Ness complex,… Read more
Dig Diary — Thursday, August 9, 2012
Day Nineteen
The finds hut on the Ness is a small, wooden hut, containing finds supervisor Anne, her assistants Scott and Sam (whom we will hear from in a future… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Day Eighteen
We’ll start today with the star find – a find that caused great excitement and led to our stone tools expert, Professor Mark Edmonds, being recalled from Kirkwall… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Day Seventeen
After the torrential rain of yesterday, this has been one of these calm, slightly claustrophobic days at the Ness, where the cloud is low and stationary, the water… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 6, 2012
Day Sixteen
And the rain came down . . .
Oh dear, oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
It has rained and rained on the Ness for most… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, August 3, 2012
Day Fifteen
Today, Friday, was a day of excellent archaeology and jaw-dropping technology to assist with the site recording.
Mark, from the University of the Highlands and Islands in Kirkwall,… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, August 2, 2012
Day Fourteen
Today, we will start with the best, the very best, find we have had in a while.
Professor Mark Edmonds arrived on site late in the afternoon and… Read more
