Dig Diary – Day Twenty-Five
Friday, July 30, 2021
Over the years of excavation the Ness has produced so many surprises that some archaeologists thought we had exhausted all the… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Twenty-Four
Thursday, July 29, 2021
An air of calm stillness hung over the Ness excavation today.
This was due, in part, to a thick veil of… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Twenty-Three
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
We have really exciting news today from Structure Five – that enigmatic building huddled just inside the “Great Wall of Brodgar”… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Twenty-Two
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Structure Twelve’s northern annex. It’s been called many things over the years – an add-on; a porch; a vestibule. No matter… Read more
A new, fully-interactive 3D model of Structure Five created by Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin.
Earlier models of the building, the earliest excavated on site to date, can be viewed… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Twenty-One
Monday, July 26, 2021
Well, here’s something new…rain!
Twenty-four hours ago the weather in Orkney was blistering. Temperatures reached over 70F (21C) and if you… Read more
A new week…a new 3D model.
On July 19, we shared the model of a huge Grooved Ware pot sherd from outside the blocked-up north-west entrance to Structure Twelve.
The… Read more
The Ness of Brodgar website has reached a milestone – reaching, and rocketing past, one million page views.
Technically, the dig diary broke that barrier many years ago, but… Read more
Owing to the Ness dig being scaled back this year because of Covid restrictions, I have again moved my artist residency to Instagram posts during the main weeks of the… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Twenty
Friday, July 23, 2021
The Ness has had many notable “firsts” but today we became one of the very, very few archaeological sites worldwide to… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Nineteen
Thursday, July 22, 2021
We’ll begin today’s diary in Structure Ten, where dig director Nick and supervisors Jo and Sinead got together to formulate a… Read more
Dig Diary – Day Eighteen
Wednesday, July 21, 2021
We’ll start today with three interesting developments in Structure Twelve.
Working just outside the south wall Ole has found a striking… Read more
