Focus on finds: bone pin
(📷 Ole Thoenies)This strange worked bone, probably the shaft of a polished pin, was found in Structure Eight on July 22, 2019.We say “strange” because the artefact is very dark… Read more
Category: Artefacts
Focus on finds: arrowhead
Arrowhead fragment (📷 Ole Thoenies)The Early Bronze Age barbed-and-tanged arrowhead found in the outer passage of Structure Ten in July 2017. (📷 ORCA) On July 9, 2019, the tip of… Read more
More images of today’s polished stone axe from Trench J
Today’s star find from Trench J.
Click any picture for a larger version. All images by Ole Thoenies.… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – a batch of beads…
Most of the artefacts you see in the pages of the daily diary are fresh from 5,000 years in the soil and, clearly, don’t look their best.
Here is a… Read more
Post-conservation – the 2015 incised stone from Structure Eight
In a week that saw Structure Eight produce numerous examples of decorated stone, we also received a number of photographs of Ness artefacts that have undergone conservation work by experts… Read more
Looking back: The carved stone ball from Structure Ten
Wednesday, August 7, 2013, was a special day in the history of the Ness of Brodgar excavations.
That was the day… Read more
Dig Diary Extra – 3D model of yesterday’s decorated stone
Decorated Stone Removed from Structure Eight/Seventeen on July 15, 2019… Read more
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… Read more
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.
The stone, pictured above, was spotted by Lorna… Read more
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.
Archaeology Institute UHI undergraduate Gary Lloyd… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
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.
Over 200 carved… Read more
