Just another day in paradise

Another typical Orkney day, started with a torrential downpour and full waterproofs, finished with bright sunshine and T shirts. Star Find goes to this little mount, drilled at both ends but broken across the holes, made out of shale or some similar stone:

We have a new category of award today - Best Surprised Look on Realising Your Photo is Being Taken - which goes to Keith (although think we may need a snappier title for the award):

Possibly another category of Holding Forth in a Downpour Whilst Watching Puddles Form, which clearly goes to Caz, with a side award for colour coordinating hat and jacket:

Harry was persevering in his trench, which was rapidly filling with water quicker than he could bale it out, leaving him excavating by touch. We've had problems at the lower end of the site in past years, there are various freshwater springs under the site and sooner or later they start to surface, especially when the tide's in:

He took a couple of big bags of this gloop for environmental analysis, which is going to be a nice surprise for our flotting team when they open it up!