Analysis suggests two young men left fingerprints on Ness pottery fragment
In April we shared the exciting news that the fingerprint of a Neolithic potter was found on a ceramic sherd recovered from Trench X.
We can now tell you that… Read more
Category: Post-excavation
Link: The significance of red deer in prehistory
A link to a new article, Connecting the Edges: The Call of the Wild, by Kath Page, a postgraduate MLitt Archaeology Studies student at the UHI Archaeology Institute. Read more
Potter’s fingerprint discovered on 5,000-year-old sherd
The Neolithic potter’s fingerprint on a sherd of pottery recovered at the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Jan Blatchford)In Orkney, around 5,000 years ago, a Neolithic potter sat down and began… Read more
Stratigraphy: unpicking the history of the Ness complex
One very crucial aspect of post-excavation work is the analysis of the stratigraphy and the creation of chronological phases for the site which all this information can be related to. Read more
Post-excavation: refining the stratigraphical matrix
Each year the structure supervisors document, in great detail, how each context layer relates to others - adding to the “stratigraphic matrix” for their area. Read more
Putting decorated pot, and more, under multiple spotlights!
Testing out RTI photography on pottery and decorated stone. Read more
