An initial funding application has been submitted to the European Maritime Fisheries Fund for the Harbours Upgrade Project (Milton and Scarinish). The amount equates to half of the overall project cost and other funders are also being approached. Continuing with the funding updates, we hope to submit a Scottish Land Fund application by the end…

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Finally we reached the bottom of the cist and found about 80% of the bones of what we think might be a mature adult male. These could be about 5000 years old which is pretty amazing. With radiocarbon dating we will know for sure.  The missing bones include small hand and feet bones, ribs and…

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Today (Wednesday) we set up a wet sieving station so that we do not need to take all the samples back to Glasgow. All the sand from inside the cist is being sieved so that we can retrieve any tiny bones, such as finger and toe bones. Wet sieving helps the sand to move through…

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Well today saw a major discovery. Much to Fiona’s relief we revealed the skull and two upper leg bones that had been replaced in the cist. Hopefully beneath these we will find the rest of the skeleton in its original crouched position. The team will be at the site until the end of the week…

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Today we had two school visits despite the weather. The damp nature of the day meant we did not get a huge amount of digging done but Matilda started four section drawings which can be added to as we go down. We have revealed the first of the supporting stones for the massive cist slab.…

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Today we were joined by two school visits and the children were able to dig in a trench and to have an go doing a geophysical survey. They were very excited to find our first flint thumbnaill scraper (prehistoric), some other small flint flakes and bone fragments. Another nail was found near the cist. The…

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Update from Dr Heather James. “Today went very well after a very wet start! We have been doing some geophysical survey of the vicinity of the cist with mixed results so far. The data needs some processing before we can show you. We then started deturfing the site of the cist and have exposed the…

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The Giant Grave Dig is commencing today, Sunday the 3rd of September. We will be posting updates of the timetable of work, which is subject to weather. Please see information below on how you can get involved. Daily Updates:  Monday Morning As the rain is quite heavy this morning we won’t be on site at 9.…

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Humza Yousaf, the Scottish Government Minister for Transport and the Islands visited Tiree on Wednesday the 16th of August. The visit was arranged by Tiree Community Council who had previously met with the Minister back in January of this year, in Holyrood. At the meeting, they invited the Minister to visit Tiree and were delighted…

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