Monthly Archive: July 2019
Day Five
Rain rain go away…
Modern archaeology interacts with many other disciplines and our colleagues at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute are developing an international…
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Day Four
Beaten by the weather
Orkney’s weather is unpredictable to say the least but even hardened Orcadians were dismayed at the summer-time (allegedly!) conditions unleashed upon us today.
It…
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Day Four of the 2019 season. The weather hasn’t been kind to us at all so far this year, but was so bad today that all digging operations had to…
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Day Three
Plagued by wind and rain…
In most of Britain the sun is shining. In the United States some folk are suffering a heatwave and in Europe the frazzled survivors…
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Day Two
Water, water everywhere…
After the excitement and manual labour of day one, day two was just manual labour. There were tyres and sandbags to move and the swathes…
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Day Two of the 2019 excavation season and work continues removing the protective covers from the Neolithic structures in Trench P.…
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Day One
Rain, gales..oh my!
We’re back!
It hardly seems like ten months since we last saw the wonderful structures at the Ness of Brodgar in all their glory.
In…
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