Category: Artefacts
Dig Diary Extra – 3D model of yesterday’s decorated stone
Decorated Stone Removed from Structure Eight/Seventeen on July 15, 2019… Continue reading
STOP PRESS – Structure Eight’s latest decorated stone
After yesterday’s discovery, we thought it couldn’t get any better.
Then today, as the weary excavators began making their way home, the Structure Eight team emerged from the building clutching another large decorated stone.… Continue reading
STOP PRESS – Decorated stone recovered from interior of Structure Eight
Structure Eight – or more correctly an earlier building lying beneath it – produced another stunning example of Neolithic decorate stone today.… Continue reading
Ness spatulas in the research spotlight…
The spatulate stone tools found at the Ness over the past few years are the subject of a new research project this summer.… Continue reading
Decorated stone fragment recovered from flotation residues
Eagle-eyed Cecily has recovered another beautiful find from the flotation residues. After last week’s tiny bead, this time she has found a small fragment of thin flagstone, unusually decorated on both sides.… Continue reading
Ness’s smallest bead measures just 2mm in diameter
Sometimes it’s the small things that astound — like this tiny stone bead discovered today.
Measuring circa 2mm in diameter, the bead must have taken a steady hand and a sharp eye to create and was recovered by Cecily from the residue from an environmental sample taken in Structure Twenty-Six last summer.… Continue reading
Putting decorated pot, and more, under multiple spotlights!
To the uninitiated, it might look as though Chris Marshall (right) has secured a sci-fi prop from a 1970s BBC TV programme (Blake’s Seven anyone?)… Continue reading
Eagle-eyed Travis brings Ness pitchstone total to 25
That well known finds magnet strikes again…
Travis, known to some of you from last years on site blog where he gained the reputation for finding several beautiful artefacts, has been gaining more work experience throughout the year assisting Cecily with sorting the residues from the sample flotation process.… Continue reading
New article ponders the mystery of carved stone balls
Ness director Nick Card is pictured (right) in an article in the latest edition of British Archaeology magazine on the enigmatic carved stone balls of Scotland.… Continue reading
