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Friday, July 11
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At work in Trench C.
Colin Richards and Bob Nunn.
Adrian Challands mans the conveyor belt - an invaluable piece of equipment for shifting the earth from the bottom of the steep-sided ditch.
Visitors - Martin Carruthers, and his team from the excavation at the Iron Age site, the Cairns, in South Ronaldsay, pay a visit.
The Ring of Brodgar
The Ness of Brodgar
Orkney's World Heritage Site
Archaeology around the Ness of Brodgar
The Standing Stones of Stenness
Rethinking the great stone circles of Northwest Britain - a paper by Dr Colin Richards