Some images of the suspected standing stone outside the entrance to Structure Twelve.
The stone is buried deep within what we originally thought was a passage between Structures Twelve and… Read more
Day TwentyStructure Twenty-Seven looking resplendent from the air. Click the image for a larger version. (📷 Scott Pike)A surprise in Jim’s ‘corner of loveliness’Today marks the half-way point of the… Read more
Day NineteenThe centre of attention today – Structure Twelve and its standing stone. (📷 Jo Bourne)A standing stone outside Structure Twelve?Concentration in Trench J. Peter, Paul, Travis, Ray and Therese.… Read more
A book documenting the 2017 dig at the Ness of Brodgar is now available.Ness of Brodgar: Open to the Public, by Woody Musgrove, is a photographic record of the excavators… Read more
Most of the artefacts you see on the pages of the daily diary are fresh from 5,000 years in the soil and, clearly, don’t look their best.Here is a batch… Read more
Day Eighteen
Thunder, lightning and no excavation!
What can we say of today, except…ugh!
To be fair it is not just today to blame; Tuesday night as well as this… Read more
After a day basking in glorious sunshine, Orkney’s weather did what it does best – change! Gales, rain and thunder saw excavation work cancelled this morning.It’s forecast to improve in… Read more
Day Seventeen
Sunshine, blistering heat and flies…
Wow. What a day. Blistering heat. Flies. Dust.
See, us archaeology types are never happy. Just last week we were complaining about the… Read more
The putative passageway (or is it a recess?) between Structures Twelve and Twenty Six, as recorded by Professor Scott Pike this afternoon.
Click on the images for a larger version.… Read more
Day Fifteen
Definitely a ‘Special Sunday’
Well, dear readers, that has been a truly marvellous day.
Almost 800 visitors attended the first of our “Special Sunday” open days and the… Read more
The Ness of Brodgar excavation featured in the February 2018 edition of Current Archaeology magazine.
But such was the demand that all printed copies sold out quickly.
However, thanks to… Read more
