Focus on finds: arrowhead
Arrowhead fragment (📷 Ole Thoenies)The Early Bronze Age barbed-and-tanged arrowhead found in the outer passage of Structure Ten in July 2017. (📷 ORCA) On July 9, 2019, the tip of… Read more
Category: Excavation
Another standing stone outside Structure Twelve?
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… Read more
Dig Diary – Friday, July 26, 2019
Day Twenty
A surprise in Jim’s ‘corner of loveliness’
Today marks the half-way point of the 2019 excavation. This is a very sobering thought, especially as the rain which has plagued… Read more
More images of today’s polished stone axe from Trench J
Today’s star find from Trench J.
Click any picture for a larger version. All images by Ole Thoenies.… Read more
Dig Diary – Thursday, July 25, 2019
Day Nineteen
A standing stone outside Structure Twelve?
The weather gods smiled upon us today.
A gorgeous day of sunshine and a gentle breeze… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – a batch of beads…
Most of the artefacts you see in 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… Read more
Dig Diary – Wednesday, July 24, 2019
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
Hit by the weather again!
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 in pictures…
A few pictures from a glorious day on site from Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
Click on any image for an enlargement.… Read more
Dig Diary – Tuesday, July 23, 2019
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
Dig Diary extra – the Structure Twelve ‘passage’ from above
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
Dig Diary – Monday, July 22, 2019
Day Sixteen
‘An absolute sea of orthostats’
We had the first of our Ness Open Days yesterday and the site and the Stenness Community Centre… Read more
Day Fifteen in pictures…
A selection of pictures from today’s open day from Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
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Dig Diary – Sunday, July 21, 2019
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
