"Like the axeheads and maceheads made on rocks from similar source areas, the pitchstone tells us that Neolithic Orcadians were ...
The ongoing processing of environmental samples from the site has yielded another little treasure - another tiny bead fragment. The ...
Side one of the stone fragment. (📷 Nick Card) Working through the Ness environmental samples, environmental archaeologist Cecily Webster has ...
Polished stone axe from Structure Fourteen at the Ness of Brodgar. Back in February 2025, we had a guest post ...
While the Ness of Brodgar is best known for its exquisite stonework, the excavations also uncovered simple tools that were ...
Figure 1: Ness of Brodgar Structures (Structure Schematics- Durdin 2024) (Bing Satellite Images) By Gary Lloyd The 2024 excavation season ...
“There is one type of stone implement very abundant at Skaill. These are flakes of hard old red sandstone. […] ...
Highly polished haematite nodule from the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) It was something that had long been suspected ...
Lithics specialist Ann Clarke on site this week. (📷 Anne Mitchell) Ann Clarke. (📷 Anne Mitchell) We were delighted to ...
The Brodgar Stone found on the Ness in February 1925. (📷 Tom Kent/Orkney Library and Archives) It was 100 years ...
One of the smaller stone discs found on site - this one from Structure Twelve's eastern annexe in 2019. (📷 ...
The Structure Twenty incised stone showing the bands of decoration. (📷 Travis Lowe) Our final season of fieldwork saw a ...
