Westray Stone Age carving is a first for Scotland
What has been hailed as Scotland’s earliest representation of a human has been unearthed in Westray. When archaeologists, working at the Historic Scotland excavation at the Links of Noltland, brushed...
View ArticleEyebrows link Westray figurine with burial chamber
New pictures suggest that a remote Neolithic burial mound may contain carvings of human eyes and eyebrows like those recently discovered on the Orkney Venus — thought to be Scotland’s oldest human...
View ArticleSecond figurine found in Westray
Archaeologists have uncovered a second Neolithic figurine at the Links of Noltland dig on Westray. The figure is the same size and shape as the original sandstone “Venus” figurine but is made of clay...
View ArticleWas Orkney’s first ‘Venus’ found in Harray?
Following the groundbreaking discovery of the Orkney Venus last year, a Harray resident has revealed that he stumbled across what could be a similar find more than 30 years earlier! Andrew Appleby...
View ArticleAbout a (Brodgar) Boy…
First there was the Orkney Venus – or the Westray Wife, as she’s known in Orkney. And now we’ve got the Brodgar Boy – a small, Stone Age figurine found at the ongoing Ness of Brodgar excavations in...
View ArticleThird figurine from Links of Noltland dig
A third hand-carved figurine has been discovered during ongoing excavations at the Links of Noltland, Westray. The Orkney Venus, or Westray Wifie as it is known locally, was unearthed in the summer of...
View ArticleFilm crew joins diggers back at the Links of Noltland . . .
A BBC film crew has been in Westray, filming at the Links of Noltland excavation site as part of a new documentary series on Scottish art. The documentary crew focused on the Westray Wife and the...
View ArticleRediscovered: Long-lost Skara Brae figurine turns up in museum storage
A long-lost Neolithic human figurine, found at Skara Brae in the 1860s, has been rediscovered in the collections of Stromness Museum. Dr David Clarke identified the figurine among artefacts from Skaill...
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