Television cameras stared at scraped ploughsoil and little could be seen. Then in came the JCB and stripped the topsoil off the mound summit. Again, little could be seen even after the surface was cleaned. Eventually, stone rubble began to appear around the vicinity of the collapsed roof. It's now Wednesday morning and further excavation around the summit has revealed some of the massive cross-slabs which compose the upper roofing of the main chamber.
Excavation continues .
Exciting news has just reached us of further discoveries on the island of Sanday which is one of the northern Orkney Isles. Jane Downes and her team from the University of Sheffield who are examining Bronze Age burial mounds seem to have uncovered another Neolithic chambered cairn. Although there is a degree of uncertainty over its identification we are going to visit the site this evening and taking photographs.