For years I wondered what was going on here, way above our heads as we prepared to end the 2004 season of archaeological excavations at Quoygrew, Orkney.
Then I saw this.
I Came, I Saw, I Suffered Immensely

I’m heading up to Orkney in a little over a week – a place I worked as an archaeologist for a couple of months, a place that’s in my blood enough to wish I’d been born there.
It’s a place where spectacles creep up on you.
(No, the other kind).


Every day is a different palette.



But archaeology is terribly hard work.
