Artefacts

The entire incised stone, which measured a mere 18cm in length. (📷 Ole Thoenies) On August 6, 2019, a small, ...
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Stonehenge. (English Heritage)
Stonehenge. (📷 English Heritage) A selection of artefacts from the Ness of Brodgar are among the hundreds coming together for ...
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Stonehenge Featured Image
A selection of the Ness of Brodgar’s finest artefacts will feature in a major exhibition at the British Museum next ...
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Carved Stone Ball lecture - featured image
Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, curator of prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic) at the National Museums of Scotland, and Mark Hall, history officer ...
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The Structure Ten carved stone ball in situ. (ORCA)
Chris Gee, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, discusses the creation of Neolithic carved stone balls ...
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Multi-hollowed cobble tool strip. Sigurd Towrie
All faces of a multi-hollowed cobble tool found in Structure Twelve in 2014. (📷 Hugo Anderson-Whymark) There have been some ...
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"Rough" haematite examples.
Highly polished haematite nodule from the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) It was something that had long been suspected ...
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Stories in Stones - Professor Mark Edmonds
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, Professor Mark Edmonds considers some of the stone artefacts from the ...
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A selection of the stone beads recovered from the Ness. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Although we don't have a huge number ...
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Worked and Incised Bone
Two large worked bones from the Ness. Top: Structure Ten. Bottom: Trench X. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Worked bone is something ...
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Spatulate Stone Tools at the Ness of Brodgar
One of the 80 plus stone spatulate tools recovered from the Ness to date (📷 ORCA) The spatulate stone tools ...
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