Artefacts

Picture: Paul Clark
The latest pitchstone flake beside a 5p piece for scale. (📷 Paul Clark) A flake of Arran pitchstone from the ...
/ Artefacts, Post-excavation
The second account of Ness volunteer Lorraine Clay's foray into experimental archaeology over the summer of 2022. Part 1 is ...
/ Artefacts, Post-excavation
Picture: Jo Bourne
Finds hut volunteer Lorraine Clay trying her hand at some experimental archaeology (in less than clement conditions) this summer. (📷 ...
/ Artefacts, Post-excavation
The 'Brodgar Stone' found on the Ness in February 1925. (Picture courtesy of Orkney Library Photographic Archive)
A new blog post on the subject of Neolithic art at the Ness of Brodgar is now available on the ...
/ Artefacts, Links
Picture: Sigurd Towrie
 Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin has worked his photogrammetry magic again, this time creating a 3d model of the ...
/ 3D Model, Artefacts, Excavation
Two of the decorated faces of the Structure Ten stone. (ORCA)
This morning we're premiering a new 3d model from Archaeology Institute UHI postgraduate student Gary Lloyd. The model shows the ...
/ 3D Model, Artefacts
whalebone macehead
The whalebone macehead in situ. (📷 ORCA) In 2010, an extraordinary macehead emerged from one of the side recesses in ...
/ Artefacts, Focus on Finds
(Picture: Hugo Anderson-Whymark)
“[T]he care taken in manufacture suggests that these artefacts, like many others, often have a significance that went beyond utility” ...
/ Artefacts, Focus on Finds
Skaill Knives (Ann Clarke)
“There is one type of stone implement very abundant at Skaill. These are flakes of hard old red sandstone. […] ...
/ Artefacts, Focus on Finds
Orkney vole remains from the Ness of Brodgar
A fraction of the vole remains recovered from the Ness over the years. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) "The picture is far ...
/ Artefacts, Focus on Finds
Picture: Antonia Thomas
Guests at the launch of the British Museum's World of Stonehenge exhibition view the Ness of Brodgar display. (📷 Antonia ...
/ Artefacts, Exhibition
To mark the opening of The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum today, British Archaeology magazine has made an ...
/ Artefacts, Exhibition