Full excavation report for 2009 season available to download
The next in our series of Data Structure Reports (DSRs) is now available, with the 2009 document free to download here.
A DSR is a technical excavation report – an intermediate summary to define the results, initial interpretation and questions that assist developing in post-excavation analysis and subsequent strategy.
It must be stressed that the document is report of its day and our interpretation of the site has evolved considerably over the last two decades.
Excavation in 2009 focused upon Trench P and in particular, Structure Ten, which had been revealed in 2008. The main goals were:
- Uncover the full extent of Structures Eight and Ten.
- Further investigate the structure (Structure One) partially uncovered by GUARD in 2003.
- Explore the nature and primary levels of these structures; and to see how they relate to other elements of the site and of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney.
- An additional trench, Trench R, was also excavated to investigate the linear geophysical anomaly that turned out to be the southern boundary wall – the “Lesser Wall of Brodgar”.
