The Cairns dig diary – day twenty
Dig director sums up a successful 2023 excavation season
Category: The Cairns
The Cairns dig diary – day nineteen
Work under way to re-cover the archaeology
The Cairns dig diary – day eighteen
Wrapping up on the final day of digging.
The Cairns dig diary – day seventeen
Red deer remains confirmed outside the broch.
The Cairns dig diary – day sixteen
Great work on site today before rain halted play…
The Cairns dig diary – day fifteen
Placing the ‘Elder assemblage’ in its contemporary context and setting
The Cairns dig diary – day fourteen
Evidence of cattle horn removal from outside Structure E.
The Cairns dig diary – day thirteen
More pottery, whalebone and delving into middens…