Photography and photogrammetry at Corrimony, a Clava Cairn near Inverness, Scotland

Today I visited Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, the venue for a major exhibition featuring artefacts from an excavation I co-directed in 2018.

Heavy frost adds another dimension to the cup and ring markings at Achnabreck, Argyll, Scotland.

The final day of the excavation. We complete the digging and recording, reflect upon possible interpretations of this unusual site.

As the excavation begins to take shape, we expand our digging to either side of the cup marked rock.

Another bright day in which we trowel back the trench and are visited by rock art doyen, George Currie.

A bright and sunny day. We continued to tidy up the main trench revealing more cobbles and a cup mark.

The first in a new series of BBC TV's Grand Tours of Scotland's Lochs was broadcast this week, and the first episode features an interview with me at a rock art site in western Scotland.

The weather this morning was blustery and changeable, and we continued to remove the grass and turf from the largest trench.

In September 2017, I excavated for two weeks at a rock art site in central Scotland, as reported in this Journal. One year on, and our small team is back to continue our investigations.

In the midst of a heatwave we backfill the two remaining trenches.

It is our final day of excavation and various tasks have to be completed before the trenches can be filled. Stan Beckensall visits.

Work continues towards the conclusion of the excavation in a couple of days time.

Trenches 1 and 3 take centre stage with new motifs and stone deposits.

Today, the site is visited by a specialist to assess its potential for Optically-Stimulated Luminescence dating. On the theme of light, I also make some observations about the qualities of tree shadows on this sunny day.

On the sixth day day there are significant developments in Trench 1, with more rock art being revealed and the discovery of some very distinctive artefacts which may have been used to carve the motifs.

Trench 1 begins to reveal some exciting features.

On the fourth day of the project we continue work on all the active trenches. 

The plan today is to open three new trenches to investigate the boulders which display carvings.

Day two of the project has dawned overcast but dry. We continue work investigating the mound to see if there is any evidence for it having been constructed.