Turning a petrosphere…
Long-time supporters of the Ness Michael and Sara Sinclair have posted a video showing the creation of one of their wooden petropsheres.
The auction of one of Michael’s stunning brass petrospheres… Read more
Monthly Archive: March 2019
Orkney – The Queen’s Isles
(Since posting this, we’ve learned it is not available to viewers outside Europe. Sorry to our non-European followers)
A beautiful documentary on Orkney, from ARTE.
The film-makers visited the Ness… Read more
Decorated stone fragment recovered from flotation residues
Eagle-eyed Cecily has recovered another beautiful find from the flotation residues. After last week’s tiny bead, this time she has found a small fragment of thin flagstone, unusually decorated on both… Read more
Ness’s smallest bead measures just 2mm in diameter
The 2mm carved stone bead from Structure Twenty-Six beside a penny to give some idea of scale.
A closer view of the tiny Structure Twenty-Six bead.
Sometimes it’s the small… Read more
Putting decorated pot, and more, under multiple spotlights!
Testing out RTI photography on pottery and decorated stone. Read more
Eagle-eyed Travis brings Ness pitchstone total to 25
That well known finds magnet strikes again…
Travis, known to some of you from last years on site blog where he gained the reputation for finding several beautiful artefacts, has… Read more
Dig director bound for China
Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card is bound for China next week, to take part in a workshop on heritage management.
Nick will travel to Xi’an for the event… Read more
