That’s this season’s dig finished, the trench backfilled and we’re beginning to get packed up for the journeys home.
It’s been an interesting, although puzzling, two weeks and we now have something we were not expecting – a monumental Early Neolithic structure, with later phases of modification and activity. Finds-wise the site has been fairly quiet, with a few pieces of flint, some rough pottery and stone tools.
Undoubtedly the finest of the tools was a worked stone found by Logan yesterday. It appears the intention was to create a polished stone axe but this task was abandoned – perhaps due to a fault in the rock at the cutting edge – and it went on to be used as a flintwork anvil.
We’ll be back next year, funding permitting, to carry on and find out more about this incredible site.
Our thanks to Jimmy Towrie, the landowner, for granting permission to dig and to Adam Towrie for opening and closing the trench for us.
Don’t forget that tonight, Friday, at 7.30pm, there will be a talk in the Sanday school. Come along to hear our latest thoughts on the site.
