Card, who is now director of the Ness of Brodgar site, has not lost the sense of wonder and awe that first propelled them all to this place. Some 650 miles south of Orkney, at Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire, archaeologists are still in the first stages of wonder at an extraordinary bronze age site that they have begun to describe as “Britain’s Pompeii”. The story started, one anointed day in March 2003, with a curious stone slab on a finger of Orkney hemmed in by seas. ANCIENT BRITAINDozens of the earliest texts ever found in Britain, written by the Romans, were found earlier this year. Recently, one of them had to sell up but gave the Ness of Brodgar Trust first option to buy.

Source: The Guardian July 24, 2016 06:00 UTC