Artefacts

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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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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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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Three examples of pumice found at the Ness of Brodgar. (Sigurd Towrie)
Three examples of pumice found at the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) While it might not be among the ...
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Ness carved stone ball
With replicas of the carved stone bone from Structure Ten going on sale online today, Ness of Brodgar excavation director ...
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A 3d photogrammetry model, by Hugo Anderson-Whymark, of the carved stone ball found at the Ness of Brodgar excavation site, ...
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Evidence of textile use at the Ness of Brodgar
We can confirm today that we have evidence of a woven Neolithic textile at the Ness of Brodgar - only ...
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With Travis, it is not enough to find just one piece of pitchstone – within hours of finding the rather ...
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