The New Trench!....... Food For Thought….
by Bernie Bell - 08:00 on 04 December 2025
The New Trench!.......
There has been exciting news from The People of the Ness (and Time Team) – a new trench will be opened next July….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/dig-2026/
If the New Trench is where is indicated by images which have been released so far, it’ll be down near what I still think of as Trench T.
When I saw the original Trench T – which has now expanded to have bits in it with names, such as Structure 27…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/about/trench-t/structure-twenty-seven/
…. I thought…… “There’s something going on there”.
I had a Trench T song, which went like this…………
"Trench T, Trench T, Trench T, Trench T
Trench T, Trench T, Treeeeeeeeeeench Teeeeeeeeee
(Repeat – ad nauseum)"
Trench T puzzles the archaeologists – it even puzzles Site Director Nick Card, and to do that it has to be very mysterious as Nick….knows.
Nick wrote about Trench T for the OAS Review for 2017….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/07/11/orkney-archaeological-society-review/
…which is still available to buy from the OAS on-line shop….
https://shop.orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/
If the New Trench is near Trench T….further mystery?
There will be a lot of interest in The New Trench (best book your visit to Orkney in good time – the dates are 7th- 30th of July) and so, not enough room to park cars by Loch View, which is kind-of near the new dig.
I’m picturing the parking space up by the main site being used again, maybe with the shop parked up there too?
And then….folk could walk down along by Stenness Loch, passing the wildflowers of the Garden of Brodgar on their left. I’ve previously written of my vision for the ‘Garden of Brodgar’…
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=16200
And there's my ‘Equinox Seeds’ poem - we then gave Nick the seeds to potentially be scattered on the infilled main site…
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17021
They can view the dig and be given the relevant info. by one of the most excellent guides then back up along past Loch View, viewing the Loch View Standing Stones on the way….
…..along the other side of the original site, and back to the car park. This would produce a good flow of visitors, and give those visitors a good idea of the whole site and its place in the bowl in the hills, between the Lochs – The Neolithic Heart of Orkney.
Picture it….
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Food For Thought….
For those who see parallels between Hitler’s Germany leading up to WW2 and Britain and America – particularly America – today. I suggest that you read the chapter entitled ‘The Door to War” in Michael Bentine’s book ‘Doors of the Mind’.
It makes interesting reading.
Read it….think about it….. and……. Beware.
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