(📷 Tris Thorne)
Bronze Age Excavation Neolithic Northern Exposure Sanday

Spurness 2025: dig diary day ten

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The penultimate day of excavation saw a buzz across the site as we race to get as much done before backfilling the site on Friday.
The site from above. (📷 Tris Thorne)
The site from above. (📷 Tris Thorne)

Views from above and at ground level

The penultimate day of excavation saw a buzz across the site as we race to get as much done before backfilling on Friday.

Some areas are beginning to make a little more sense but, as always, others remain obstinately confusing. But we’ve made great inroads and look forward to getting back next year – funding permitting.

A reminder to Sanday folk that on Friday evening, at 7.30pm, there will be a talk in the school. Come along to hear our latest thoughts on this enigmatic Early Neolithic building (and its later additions/modifications).

The excavation site, to the west of the Bay of Stove. (📷 Tris Thorne)
The excavation site, to the west of the Bay of Stove. (📷 Tris Thorne)
(📷 Tris Thorne)
Section of the trench showing the western "dresser" chamber at the top. (📷 Tris Thorne)
Section of the trench showing the western “dresser” chamber at the top of the Early Neolithic structure. Later modifications, possibly Bronze Age, are visible at the bottom of the photograph. (📷 Tris Thorne)
An introduction to flint from Dr Ben Elliott of the UHI Archaeology Institute. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Jasmin and Nicola in the western end chamber. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Annetta and Grace in their sondage west of the Early Neolithic building. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Logan in the suspected Bronze Age addition at the east of the Early Neolithic building. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
The "passage" from the east. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

Work in progress across the site today. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)

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