Monthly Archive: July 2020
Seven years ago today was a day to remember. It was the day that the most incredible piece of Neolithic decoration found on site to date emerged from the interior of Structure Ten.
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Archaeology Institute UHI graduate Gary Lloyd was awarded a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship to complete the research, which focused on the spoon-like artefacts, of which over 80 have been found to date.
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Dig Diary – Thursday, July 30, 2020
Day Nineteen
July 30, 2012, saw some intense thinking about the site by site director Nick.
Building on the detailed stratigraphic by the…
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By Karen Wallis
This watercolour of incoming clouds represents my love affair with Orkney skies, together with weather, as a constant feature of the excavations.
On my first day as…
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Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Day Eighteen
We kick of proceedings today in Structure Eight, which has revealed much in the way of finds – including huge quartz…
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It’s Wednesday again, so time for another selection of photographs from dig director Nick Card.
Click on any image for a larger version.…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Day Seventeen
On this day in 2011, the “Brodgar Boy” emerged from Structure Fourteen.
The small clay “figurine” was about only 30mm (1.18in)…
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Cecily Webster highlights the complexities of producing historically accurate reconstruction drawings.
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Diary – Monday, July 27, 2020Day Sixteen2011: The macehead and pierced bone in Structure Eight. (📷 ORCA)Structure Eight has a reputation for fine artefacts and it didn’t disappoint on July…
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A talk by Dr Scott Timpany of the Archaeology Institute UHI on prehistoric woodlands preserved within intertidal peats around the coastline of Britain.
Here Scott…
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By Roy TowersA coloured pottery sherd from Structure Twelve. (📷 ORCA)When you think about the Ness of Brodgar one word which comes to mind is “abundance”…There is an abundance of…
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Seven years ago today, what has become one of the most iconic finds from the Ness first saw the light of day.
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By Jeanne Bouza Rose
In the early 2000s, I got hooked on the Neolithic at the Ness. In 2012, both supplies and volunteers were in short supply.…
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Diary – Thursday, July 23, 2020
Day Fourteen
The second week of the 2012 season got under way with the discovery of a human tooth inside Structure…
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By Karen Wallis
My work is about human activity, whereas the focus at the Ness is on the evidence provided by objects – either the finds themselves or the structure…
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Diary – Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Day Thirteen
The first week of the 2011 excavation season ended on July 22, with the discovery of a…
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