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Well, What A Bore

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.

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Then I saw this.

Previously on “Orkney”…

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).

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Every day is a different palette.

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But archaeology is terribly hard work.

Long day on Mainland

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