Pitchstone flake brings Ness total to 47The latest pitchstone flake beside a 5p piece for scale. (📷 Paul Clark) A flake of Arran pitchstone from the ...Read More Tuesday, December 6, 2022 / Artefacts, Post-excavationRecollections of working stone: Incised lines – a matter of ambidexterity?The second account of Ness volunteer Lorraine Clay's foray into experimental archaeology over the summer of 2022. Part 1 is ...Read More Friday, October 14, 2022 / Artefacts, Post-excavationRecollections of working stone: part oneFinds hut volunteer Lorraine Clay trying her hand at some experimental archaeology (in less than clement conditions) this summer. (📷 ...Read More Thursday, October 6, 2022 / Artefacts, Post-excavationLink: Wonderful things hiding in plain sight: art at the Ness of BrodgarA new blog post on the subject of Neolithic art at the Ness of Brodgar is now available on the ...Read More Wednesday, August 3, 2022 / Artefacts, LinksDig Diary Extra – 3d model of worked whalebone artefact Trench J supervisor Paul Durdin has worked his photogrammetry magic again, this time creating a 3d model of the ...Read More Tuesday, July 12, 2022 / 3D Model, Artefacts, ExcavationNew 3d model of Structure Ten’s decorated foundation depositThis morning we're premiering a new 3d model from Archaeology Institute UHI postgraduate student Gary Lloyd. The model shows the ...Read More Monday, May 2, 2022 / 3D Model, ArtefactsFocus on finds: Structure Eight’s whalebone maceheadThe whalebone macehead in situ. (📷 ORCA) In 2010, an extraordinary macehead emerged from one of the side recesses in ...Read More Friday, March 18, 2022 / Artefacts, Focus on FindsFocus on finds: maceheads“[T]he care taken in manufacture suggests that these artefacts, like many others, often have a significance that went beyond utility” ...Read More Friday, March 11, 2022 / Artefacts, Focus on FindsFocus on finds: Skaill knives (and how to make them)“There is one type of stone implement very abundant at Skaill. These are flakes of hard old red sandstone. […] ...Read More Friday, March 4, 2022 / Artefacts, Focus on FindsFocus on finds: the Orkney voleA fraction of the vole remains recovered from the Ness over the years. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) "The picture is far ...Read More Monday, February 28, 2022 / Artefacts, Focus on FindsIntensely moved by the human stories at launch of ‘World of Stonehenge’Guests at the launch of the British Museum's World of Stonehenge exhibition view the Ness of Brodgar display. (📷 Antonia ...Read More Monday, February 21, 2022 / Artefacts, ExhibitionFree article access and talk mark opening of British Museum exhibitionTo mark the opening of The World of Stonehenge at the British Museum today, British Archaeology magazine has made an ...Read More Thursday, February 17, 2022 / Artefacts, Exhibition‹ 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 ›