Category: Excavation

Day Seven A damp, but exciting, day… We ended yesterday’s diary with a defiant challenge to the weather gods. Now that we’re all home, clean, warm and in dry clothes… Read more

Day Six Back to its happy self What a difference a weekend makes. On Friday of last week we were soaked, chilled to the bone and generally emitting extreme misery.… Read more

Before another day of incessant rain forced us to call a halt to proceedings, work had started on extending Trench T to expose more of the enigmatic Structure Twenty-Seven. The… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more

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… Read more