Downpour halts work on site
Well, it was a thoroughly wet day today and if we’d worked on the site – across the sensitive floors and occupation deposits – we would soon be churning up the site on the soles of our boots.
We therefore took the decision to not tread on site and, after an initial inspection, the team came back to the Archaeology Institute and, ultimately, a visit to the broch of Gurness, which is, of course, a highly comparable Iron Age site to The Cairns.
With no work on the site today, I thought I’d simply leave you with a few images from yesterday on site.
Don’t forget folks, that you can visit the excavations Monday to Friday (during the hours of around 9am to 4pm) and that we will hold our special open day on Friday, July 11, from 10am to 4pm.
Martin Carruthers
The Cairns site director
