The activity on site has been pretty much the same as the last few days -so I thought I'd include some actual archaeology on the page, I  finally have Matts description of the pottery on site - it takes forever drawing all the dots :-

  During the 1999 season of excavation at Dunragit we found 121 pieces of Neolithic and Bronze Age pottery in total. These mainly came from 10 different pots, fragments (sherds) of which are illustrated here. 

( A ) ( B )	The first four sherds ( A )are small parts of two different pots called Groove Ware Bowls. These Probably date from 2900-2300 BC. Grooved Ware is often very elaborately decorated but all the sherds of these two bowls are plain. The bottom one however has fine marks on it, which were probably caused by wiping the surface with grass before the pot was fired. The bottom three sherds  (B ) are also Grooved Ware. This pot was decorated with incised lines and triangular jabbed impressions
The large pot at ( C ) is another example, which may be grooved ware.	( C)
( D ) ( E )	Most of the other pottery from 1999 is Beaker Ware. The sherd ( D  ) and the lower two ( E) are Beaker Ware; bottom left a coarse Beaker Ware, far right a fine example. Both are decorated with lines of twisted oval impressions.
The large pot ( F ) is another Coarse Beaker Ware with twisted cord decoration,	( F )
( G )	whilst ( G ) is a plain example.
The remaining sherd ( H )  is a food vessel of Bronze Age date	( H )
The majority of the grooved ware and beaker ware come from two features, a posthole of the first inner palisade and another from alignment D. These two features would have intercut each other at their tops, and we can’t be sure exactly which pottery would have originally been in which feature – its possible that grooved ware and beaker ware can be contemporary, but on the other hand, it may be that the two were originally separate and here became mixed up later. The pattern of this years finds are suggesting that the latter explanation is the more likely.
Pottery from the 2000 season of excavation

by Matt Leivers 

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Base Camp

As the excavation progresses we produce more and more information about the site, all of this has to be carefully recorded and interpreted. Here Ange is starting to write a report on the feature she has been working on for the last few days

Julian downloading images from the on-site digital camera, the computer on the left is used for the web site construction.