Category: Ceramics

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Introducing ceramics 2: The excavation process

By Roy TowersA large sherd of decorated Grooved Ware pottery ready to be lifted. (ORCA)Pottery is remarkable stuff. It may be broken, kicked about, scuffed and generally disrespected, but if… Read more

Ceramics / Reconstruction

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Introducing ceramics: An abundance of pottery

By Roy TowersA coloured pottery sherd from Structure Twelve. (📷 ORCA)When you think about the Ness of Brodgar one word which comes to mind is “abundance”…There is an abundance of… Read more

Ceramics

Thursday, March 12, 2020

Pot sherd – before and after…

Hot off the press! A before and after shot of a classic sherd of Neolithic Grooved Ware pot from Structure Twelve. Picture one (above) shows the sherd emerging and picture… Read more

The coloured pottery sherd from Structure Twelve.

Ceramics

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Another sherd of coloured pottery

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. This body sherd… Read more

Ceramics / News

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

More coloured pottery from the Ness

The remarkable Neolithic ceremonial site at the Ness of Brodgar has a habit of springing surprises on those who work there. Ceramics specialist Roy Towers from the Archaeology Institute… Read more

An example of the detail captured on an RTI model - this one showing an incised stone from the Ness. (Michael Sharpe)

Ceramics / Post-excavation

Saturday, March 9, 2019

Putting decorated pot, and more, under multiple spotlights!

Testing out RTI photography on pottery and decorated stone. Read more

Dr Mike Copper with a pot created by one of this afternoon's pottery workshop participants at the Ness.

Ceramics / Exhibition

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Uncover the enigma of Grooved Ware at the Orkney Museum

Another not-to-be-missed exhibition featuring material from the Ness is running at the Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, Tracing the Lines: Pots and People in the Late Neolithic is the brainchild of two long-term… Read more

Ceramics / Exhibition

Thursday, May 3, 2018

Summer exhibition – pots and people in the Late Neolithic

Another not-to-be-missed exhibition opens this Saturday, May 5, at the Orkney Museum, Kirkwall, featuring material from the Ness. Tracing the Lines: Pots and People in the Late Neolithic is the… Read more

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