Tell me where North is!

The most frustrating part of surveying a standing structure, such as the Lower House at Brynkir, is that instead of learning more by looking at it, I sometimes feel like I know less and less with every day. It feels like I'm playing pictionary with an alien and we have no common ground. Luckily I have Alex, my Number 2,(patronizing Kathy strikes) to always remind me that we are here not to be frustrated but to try and build up a logical picture of the chronology of the house in our minds. I figure if there was ever a conscious moment at which I started looking at the project as not just a university task but as a personal interest, that was the 8th of August. My team and I were working in the library room and it was the measuring of elevations of the internal walls-time, when I slowly grew aware of my internal ambition to try and make sense of the stones that were standing around me. The only trouble was, it is hard to describe simply where North is, when doing a schematic drawing- if you are using the archaeological way that is. Seems like archaeology itself has come such a long way it is impossible for the discipline to be self-explanatory. It was a godsend when Mark took the director's decision to use the architectural way of describing inner and outer elevations. All we need to know now is just where North is! As we come closer to the end of the dig I can feel how the days start rolling faster and I don't really want them to anymore. I want to stay longer and listen to the stones so maybe they can tell me the secrets of this house. Does that make me crazy?