Dig Watch: Ness of Brodgar | Day 19 (Patreon)

Nobody wants this dig to end!

We arrived onsite thinking that Thursday was going to be the last day of digging, but we rapidly realised that with the changeable weather, the dig would most likely spill over into Friday.

We had hundreds of visitors today dodging some pretty hefty showers but the day began and ended in sunshine. There’s a few questions still outstanding and the team wanted a chance to consider the findings tomorrow before the site gets backfilled again.

Today Ben worked rapidly to remove the blocking stones at the entrance way and we now have a clearer understanding of how that might have looked. It seems possible that there were orthostats lining the entrance way and a possible porch outside it, so it could have been quite an impressive looking building.

But we still need to understand how the newly discovered structure 45 and another wall relate to 44. And any more dating evidence would be very welcome.

So all in all there are some burning questions still eating away at the experts and the team want another crack at a few areas tomorrow morning. So we’ll be back tomorrow after all!