“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 ...
Worked bone point - one of three found in Structure Thirty-Four in 2024. (📷 Anne Mitchell) As we've explained before, ...
The cleaned, flat end section of the Structure Twenty clay object, showing the delicate decoration. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) After 20 ...
The worn, deciduous molar from Structure Thirty-Four. (📷 Jo Bourne) Another of the season's most surprising finds – a child’s ...
One of Ceiridwen’s decorated stones from Structure Seventeen. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Earlier this month, I did Ceiridwen a disservice by ...
The polished stone axe from Structure Fourteen. (📷 ORCA) The stunning polished stone axehead found in Structure Fourteen in 2014 ...
Ceiridwen with her decorated stone. (📷 Jo Bourne) To find one example of incised stone decoration at the Ness was ...
