The stamped pottery sherd in the finds hut. (📷 Anne Mitchell) August began with a day of remarkable finds, one ...
The stone vessel from Trench T. (📷 Tom O’Brien) At the beginning of the 2024 season, all eyes were on ...
"Others talked of absent kin and of the winter that lay ahead, breaking off to kick at the dogs when ...
Supervisor Jim Rylatt in Structure Twelve. (📷 Jo Bourne) Last weekend saw our 2024 Sponsor a Square newsletter send out ...
"Like the axeheads and maceheads made on rocks from similar source areas, the pitchstone tells us that Neolithic Orcadians were ...
“Sea eagles constitute the example of a bird par excellence, being the largest bird in Neolithic Orkney and the bird ...
Paul Durdin's latest 3d model - the rhodochrosite pillowstone fragment from Structure Thirty today. Two other rhodochrosite pillowstones have been ...
One of the exhibition display panels. (Sigurd Towrie) The Orkney Museum is playing host to some of the Ness of ...
Three of the Ness of Brodgar's small clay balls. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) There were many puzzling finds over 20 years ...
By Gary Lloyd We are often drawn to the aesthetically pleasing, meticulously crafted, unusual, or enigmatic in archaeology. Many of ...
Excavation of an orthostatic box in 2022, introduced an intriguing new element into the relationship between Structures Seventeen and Eight ...
We remain in Trench J for today’s Top Ten entry. A short distance to the north-west of the hearth mentioned ...
