Another decorated stone unearthed on the Ness

Another decorated stone has turned up on the Ness of Brodgar — three days into this year’s archaeological excavations.

The stone, from Structure Twelve, is intriguing the archaeologists due to the similarity of an Early Neolithic stone found at Smerquoy earlier this year.

The Smerquoy stone is an incomplete spiral, looking something like a heart-shape, but it is possible that the Ness stone, once excavated, will be a complete spiral — a rare form of decoration in the Orcadian Neolithic.

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