Dig Diary – Friday, July 31, 2015
Day Twenty
Dodging the downpours
To start, today, we want to introduce Jim Eltome, husband of Annabel, who runs the site shop, and the man on site who can turn… Read more
Monthly Archive: July 2015
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 30, 2015
Day Nineteen
Midden pits . . . in the midden
We’ll concentrate today on Trench T — that long excavation on the far side of the house, Lochview, which heads… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Day Eighteen
Today was rather brutal — that’s the only word for it. It didn’t rain (much) but the wind started strong and got a lot stronger.
The Ness is a… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Day Seventeen
In search of the elusive Twenty-Three
For Structure Fourteen the end is nigh, or so we are told. This would be a momentous event because the complexity of the Ness of… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 27, 2015
Day Sixteen
Glory fades? Not on the Ness . . .
After the excitement of yesterday’s Open Day, calm has descended on the Ness today. Unchanged, however, is the huge… Read more
Open Day time-lapse video
Hugo Anderson-Whymark’s time-lapse video showing part of Sunday’s Open Day at the Ness excavation site.… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – Sunday, July 26, 2015
Open Day
Today was our first Open Day of the season at the Ness, and what a day it was.
To everyone’s surprise the Orkney weather played ball and, although… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 24, 2015
Day Fifteen
Preparing for the open day
It is a lovely day today, so let’s get on with the archaeology. As regular readers will know, many stone roof tiles have been… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 23, 2015
Day Fourteen
Windswept, but interesting
Well, there is precipitation; there is horizontal precipitation and there is wind-assisted, horizontal precipitation. Today we had the wind-assisted variety and it made for a most… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Day Thirteen
Oh, it’s such a perfect day . . .
It has been the strangest day. There has been no precipitation and nothing to dim the high spirits, if… Read more
Daily activities and resource use in Neolithic Orkney: microarchaeology at the Ness of Brodgar
A lecture on microarchaeology at the Ness of Brodgar by Dr Lisa-Marie Shillito, of the University of Edinburgh, at the 2015 Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP) conference, Saturday, May 30,… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Day Twelve
Raising an eyebrow . . .
We haven’t said much about Trench T yet — the one on the far side of the house. That is because it has… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, July 20, 2015
Day Eleven
Decorated stone and the Willamettes
Let’s start with the weather. The coarse and blustery wind of this afternoon is now accompanied by pelting rain or, as we prefer… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – Saturday, July 18, 2015
The site from above . . .
Ness of Brodgar Excavation Site
Yesterday, we showcased some of the superb photographs captured by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, using his kite camera — … Read more
Ness of Brodgar on BBC Radio Scotland
The Ness of Brodgar excavation featured on this morning’s BBC Radio Scotland programme Out of Doors. Click here to access (available for 29 days, from today).… Read more
Dig diary – Friday, July 17, 2015
Day Ten
Proof the sky is blue, sometimes . . .
Once again apologies for the weather, which has stopped play for today — it’s just too treacherous for diggers,… Read more
