Artefacts

The cleaned fragments in the finds hut. (📷 Anne Mitchell)
The polished stone axe from Structure Fourteen. (📷 ORCA) The stunning polished stone axehead found in Structure Fourteen in 2014 ...
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Closer view of one of the decorated faces. (📷 Ceiridwen Blakely)
Ceiridwen with her decorated stone. (📷 Jo Bourne) To find one example of incised stone decoration at the Ness was ...
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2024: One of the two ‘butterflies’ from the Structure Twelve eastern annexe. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
The two incised ‘butterflies’ from Structure Twelve's eastern annexe slab. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) Behind this artefact is a long story, ...
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Decorated pottery sherd. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
The stamped pottery sherd in the finds hut. (📷 Anne Mitchell) August began with a day of remarkable finds, one ...
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Stone dish from Trench T
The stone vessel from Trench T. (📷 Tom O’Brien) At the beginning of the 2024 season, all eyes were on ...
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Dog and a standing stone. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
"Others talked of absent kin and of the winter that lay ahead, breaking off to kick at the dogs when ...
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(📷 Jo Bourne)
Supervisor Jim Rylatt in Structure Twelve. (📷 Jo Bourne) Last weekend saw our 2024 Sponsor a Square newsletter send out ...
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(📷 Jo Bourne)
"Like the axeheads and maceheads made on rocks from similar source areas, the pitchstone tells us that Neolithic Orcadians were ...
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Structure Ten sea eagle bone
“Sea eagles constitute the example of a bird par excellence, being the largest bird in Neolithic Orkney and the bird ...
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(📷 Paul Durdin)
Paul Durdin's latest 3d model - the rhodochrosite pillowstone fragment from Structure Thirty today. Two other rhodochrosite pillowstones have been ...
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
One of the exhibition display panels. (Sigurd Towrie) The Orkney Museum is playing host to some of the Ness of ...
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Clay balls. (Sigurd Towrie)
Three of the Ness of Brodgar's small clay balls. (📷 Sigurd Towrie) There have been many puzzling finds over the ...
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