Day Twenty in pictures….
The half-way mark was reached yesterday – just four weeks left of the 2019 excavation season. Pictures by Jo Bourne and Sigurd Towrie.
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A scrappy, later extension to one of the piers in Structure Eight - the source of the decorated stone recovered over the past few weeks.
Our monolith-shaped, rectangular tour guide Sigurd gesticulates during one of our three daily site tours.
Andy excavating in Structure Eight.
Structure Twelve.
Structure Twelve supervisor Jim in his custom-built paperwork nook.
Trench X.
Atop the Trench T spoil-heap.
Excavation in the south-eastern Trench T extension.
Nate planning outside the southern end of Structure Twenty-Seven.
Nate planning outside the southern end of Structure Twenty-Seven.
Tristan at work in the eastern entrance to Structure Twelve.
Between the huts. Megan and Kate.
Cleaning bones. Kate...
...and Megan.
Paperwork. Kaehlin outside Trench J.
Trench T.
Structure Twenty-Seven. Trench T.
The remains of the interior 'stone-cladding' in Structure Twenty-Seven.
The 'Great Wall of Brodgar'. Trench J.
Allison and Professor Scott Pike at work within dig HQ.
Site director Nick and Tristan at the eastern entrance to Structure Twelve.
Kaehlin visiting the entrance to Structure Twelve.
Jan in Structure Twelve.
Alison and Kenna excavating beside the outer wall of Structure Thirty-Three.
Hannah at the northern entrance to Structure Twelve.
Chris cleans the newly revealed paving between Structure Seventeen (represented by the curving wall) and Structure Eighteen - two buildings earlier than Structure Eight and lying beneath it.
