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Excavation Archive
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Ness of Brodgar in the spotlight at the Orkney Museum
Next Saturday, May 5, sees the opening of the new summer exhibition at the Orkney Museum, Tankerness House, Kirkwall. Ness of Brodgar: The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a chance to find…
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New 2012 site plan online
With just over three months to go until excavations resume at the Ness of Brodgar, an updated plan, showing all the structures on site, is now available here. The 2012 excavations are…
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Another award for the Ness of Brodgar excavations
The excavation on the Ness of Brodgar has been named the winner of the 2012 Andante Travels Archaeology Award. The Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology/Orkney College UHI project was runner-up in the international…
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2012 excavation dates
The 2012 excavations on the Ness of Brodgar are due to begin on July 16, running until August 24. Site tours will commence on July 18, two days after excavations resume,…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Day Twenty-Seven That’s all folks…until next year Well, that is the end of the dig at the Ness of Brodgar for another 10.5 months. With good luck, and the generosity…
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Dig Diary – Monday, August 22, 2011
Day Twenty-Six A day of sunshine and showers, which accurately reflects the mood of the team today. Lots of interesting work remains to be done, although most of it involves…
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Dig Diary – Sunday, August 21, 2011
Day Twenty-Five Today was open day on the Ness, and people came from far and wide to see the amazing structures and artefacts from 5,000 years ago. Truly, the folk…
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Dig Diary – Thursday, August 18, 2011
Day Twenty-Four Slowly but surely, excavation at the Ness is declining in pace and in scope. Not through any lack of energy or commitment on the part of the staff…
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Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Day Twenty-Three A momentous day We have dredged the bottom of our bucket of superlatives in order to describe what has been happening on the Ness in days past, and…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Day Twenty-Two Another hot day on the Ness, and an even hotter one in the trenches. Structure Fourteen turned out to be particularly sizzling today. A thin deposit of clay…
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Dig Diary – Monday, August 15, 2011
Day Twenty-One It is the beginning of week five – which is an alarming thought. Only this week and next to crack on with uncovering as many of the secrets…
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Dig Diary – Friday, August 12, 2011
Day Twenty A new ‘Comet Stone’ Here is a question for all you blog readers out there in the archaeo-sphere. Was Halley’s Comet visible in the skies above Orkney in…
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Dig Diary – Thursday, August 11, 2011
Day Nineteen The infernal Orkney wind caused problems on the Ness today, drying the surface of soil and midden and sending it flying over previously cleaned sections. Frankly, it made…
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Dig Diary – Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Day Eighteen STOP PRESS: Mike has finally found wall lines while investigating the area of the presumed, and long anticipated, entrance to Structure Ten! However, they are not what we…
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Dig Diary – Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Day Seventeen And the rains have cleared – hoorah! It’s not quite a balmy and sultry day, but at least it’s mainly dry and waterproofs have been replaced by just…
