Rain and wind – enough to make most people want to stay indoors. Not at the Ness of Brodgar though, where both archaeologists and visitors are out in this weather to do and see the dig. Visitors are here briefly before heading back to the dry and the warm. But archaeologists remain working for hours, scraping mud or, as today is the first day with the tarpaulins off the trenches, weeding and trimming back the grass that has grown over the year.
Work has begun again in Trench Y. There is yellow clay of the natural surface around various hints of bits of structure. It’s going to be interesting to see what is revealed in the next few weeks.
