Art of Neolithic Orkney
The Ancients
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The Nessa Broca and the Butterfly Stone
There's some markings and particularly the Broca butterfly as it's come to be called, which seems to be unique to the Nessa Broca. And this design is formed from a cross, so a sort of saltier cross, and then with arcing sort of arcs either side of it. So it's sort of what we'd call an opposed fan motif, I suppose, something like that. But in terms of whether they started here in Orkney and then moved elsewhere, it's difficult to say.
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