The project is also revealing rare basketry and other cord impressions.
Between Stenness and Brodgar lies the Ness of Brodgar where during the summer months active excations take place and they also offer free tours.In high season (July, August) you need to reserve your accommodation well in advance. If there is time, the walk between the two groups of standing stones is very scenic, and takes one right next to the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site, which I though was well worth the detour. Skara Brae lay buried under the sand for almost 4500 years until it was discovered in 1850 when a storm stripped the grass from the dunes.
A lunchtime lecture will discuss art and artefacts from Neolithic sites in Orkney. On the Orkney side a bus is waiting to take you up to Kirkwall and even to do a full tour of the island. The ring is very large and can be walked around freely (unlike, say, Stonehenge). South Ronaldsay, where my grandfather grew up is over the Churchill Barriers.
You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . The one other documented example from Mainland Scotland was found at Flint Howe, Dumfries and Galloway. Archaeologists have found evidence of 5,000-year-old Neolithic textiles in Orkney, said to be only the second such find in Scotland.The impression of the cloth was discovered on a fragment of pottery found at Ness of Brodgar, which is part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.Organic material from prehistory does not survive unless it is in very specific oxygen-free conditions, so the study of Neolithic textiles has to rely on secondary evidence, experts said.The archaeologists at the site do not physically have a piece of 5,000-year-old fabric.The latest discovery came during a project started in 2019 at the Archaeology Institute of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).It set out to closely examine impressions left on the surfaces of fragments, known as “sherds”, of grooved ware pottery unearthed at the Ness.The project uses reflectance transformation imaging (RTI), a technique that uses a photographic rig to take multiple photos of a subject, each with a differently angled light source.These pictures are combined, using computer software, to create a highly-detailed digital image of the surface of an object that can be examined from all angles, and examined on screen, with the results revealing surface details not visible during normal examination.Analysis found the impression of cord cloth on two “co-joining” sherds of pottery.The impressions appear on the inner face of the vessel, suggesting they were made by the potter’s clothing while the pot was being created.Ness of Brodgar site director Nick Card said: “There is no evidence of textile tools available in Neolithic Orkney, suggesting textiles were made by hand, or using tools made with organic materials that have not survived in the archaeological record.“This lack of material culture around textile production can help us to infer what techniques they may have been using.“The project is also revealing rare basketry and other cord impressions.“A growing number of base sherds from the Ness have impressions of coiled mats used in the construction of clay vessels.
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