Aerial shots from Day Thirty-Four
A selection of drone shots from yesterday from Professor Scott Pike.… Read more
Category: Excavation
Dig Diary – Thursday, August 15, 2019
Day Thirty-Four
Paperwork, plans and finds
With just days to go until the 2019 excavation draws to a close, the site was abuzz with activity today.
Needless to say, with… Read more
Decorated stone covered today’s animal bone deposit
As mentioned in today’s dig diary, Bruce lifted a flagstone beside one of the standing stones flanking the entrance to Structure Twelve to reveal a large spread of animal bone.… Read more
More images of today’s incised stone
Four more photographs of the incised stone found in the cell outside Structure Twelve’s eastern entrance today.
Click on any image for a larger version.
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Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Day Thirty-Three
‘Compulsive building, re-building, alteration and improvement’
After the massive cleaning exercise for yesterday’s photo sessions, the Ness is looking magnificent today in the sunshine.
The buildings are sharply… Read more
Time is running out for free tours of the Ness dig
With the 2019 drawing to a close next Friday, August 23, 2019, there’s not much time left if you want to take advantage of our free site tours.
The last… Read more
Some of the fruits of our labours…
Cleaning Trench P from top to bottom was completed today and the photography sessions began in earnest.
Here are some of the images from Professor Scott Pike. Click on any… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Day Thirty-Two
More cleaning and photography
Not much to report today – cleaning continued in Trench P in preparation for this afternoon’s marathon photography session. And when complete the buildings… Read more
Trench P from above – preview shots
For the first time in years, all of Trench P has been completely uncovered and cleaned thoroughly ahead of overhead photography tomorrow.
The cleaning work will be finished tomorrow morning… Read more
Dig Diary – Monday, August 12, 2019
Day Thirty-One
Clean-up operation in Trench P
It’s been an incredibly busy day on site, with the efforts of all remaining 60 plus diggers diverted to a massive clean-up of… Read more
Volunteers needed to help cover the site
It’s that time again.
With just eight days left of the 2019 excavation, we’re looking for some hardy volunteers to help us cover the site.
By next Wednesday, August 21,… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, August 9, 2019
Day Thirty
Wind, puzzling structures and a Neolithic bull!
To be honest today has been a bit of a struggle.
The day started grey and windy and became very windy… Read more
Drone images – Structures One, Twenty-Seven and Trench T
As we mentioned earlier, Professor Scott Pike launched his drone for record shots of Trench T as well as Structure One.
Here are a few of the day’s photographs. Click… Read more
Day Twenty-Nine in pictures…
A few photographs from today by Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
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