Category: Ceramics

By Roy Towers So, our Neolithic Grooved Ware is formed, dried, decorated and ready for the all-important firing. What comes next?… Continue reading

The hunt is on for clues, for any evidence of change through time. If you are a historian that can come in a dusty library as you leaf through old documents.… Continue reading

By Roy Towers How was Neolithic pottery made, and in particular the Grooved Ware pottery from the Ness of Brodgar? We should acknowledge at the outset that this is not a simple question.… Continue reading

By Roy Towers Pottery is remarkable stuff. It may be broken, kicked about, scuffed and generally disrespected, but if it stays below ground surface and avoids frost and the plough it can last for thousands of years.… Continue reading

By Roy Towers When you think about the Ness of Brodgar one word which comes to mind is “abundance”. There is an abundance of magnificent stone structures, an abundance of stone decoration and artefacts of every imaginable type, some not seen before.… Continue reading

Hot off the press! A before and after shot of a classic sherd of Neolithic Grooved Ware pot from Structure Twelve.… Continue reading

While Roy Towers our ceramics expert was studying some pot from the later phases of Structure Twelve, he came across another rather fine example of coloured pottery.… Continue reading