Art of Neolithic Orkney
The Ancients
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The Unstanware Pottery in Orkney
Orkney has stone built houses from the Neolithic. Most parts of Britain would have had wooden houses at that time and we don't know how the wood would have been carved or decorated. Unstanware Pottery is the name given to these decorated round bottomed bowls. These are ones which we associate with the earlier Neolithic period. We Unstan, the Unstanware vessels are really nicely decorated often with this herringbone pattern.
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