Monthly Archive: August 2016
The hills of Hoy, viewed over the Stenness loch.Day Thirty-NineOver the past days of final planning and section drawing, sandbagging, tyre-rolling and tarping, we’ve had the occasional pleasure of migrating…
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Day Thirty-Eight
See you next year . . .
The end, the absolute end, has arrived. For this year at least.
Today we gave…
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Structure 14, Ness of Brodgar 2016
by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark
on Sketchfab…
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Trench T, Ness of Brodgar 2016
by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark
on Sketchfab…
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Day Thirty-Seven
Post-ex during the dig . . .
One of the most popular members of the Ness team is Bryn the site dog. A handsome…
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Day Thirty-Six
An unexpected discovery
The sky over the Ness today was grey and overcast and so, unfortunately, was the mood down below.
It’s partly…
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Day Thirty-Five
Thank you all . . .
Sorry folks, there’s no written diary today as we were just too busy with almost 1,200 visitors to the open day. But,…
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Day Thirty-Four
Activity on the Ness extended by new radiocarbon dates
Today was a day for visitors – not just our very valued folk here to take tours, but for…
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Trench X in three dimensions
As mentioned in today’s dig diary, Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark has been back on site today and has created this 3D model of Trench X. This…
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Day Thirty-Three
Prehistoric seaweed? Maybe. But there’s definitely more art…
Today we have a mysterious object – a very mysterious object.
We told you recently of Jenny’s excellent efforts in…
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Day Thirty-Two
There’s art in those stones…
We’re going to start today with heartiest congratulations to two of our stalwarts.
Claire and Mike have toiled long and hard in Structure…
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Day Thirty-One
Reusing a stone circle?
We are worried about the BBC. The team filming the Ness excavations arrived in force this morning and followed Nick around, bombarding him with…
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Day Thirty
The Ness is alive, with the sound of ‘chambered’ . . .
The Ness of Brodgar is suffused with a rosy glow today and it has nothing, absolutely…
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Getting to grips with geomatics
Although to most visitors of the Ness of Brodgar we might appear like either brightly-coloured or darkly-tinted lumps of waterproofs, crouched down in tiny corners…
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Day Twenty-Eight
A veritable ‘Day of Stone’
Today was a day of solid, undiluted archaeology. As site director Nick describes it, with capital letter emphasis, a Day of Stone.
You…
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Day Twenty-Seven
What lies beneath Structure Ten’s sandstone blocks?
Sorry folks, we’re starting with the weather again, but for a particular reason. Today is windy and cold.
The weather-beating received…
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