Cute Jewellery – Influenced by Orkney’s Old Monuments
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Cute jewellery has actually been crafted in Orkney for years by Ola Gorie utilising the brilliant art of very old civilisations that had been once vibrant in Orkney. Many of these have become essential jewellery pieces and are set to become a whole lot more desirable as the popularity for our Neolithic heritage increases. Cute jewellery is performing a modest part in spreading the word of Orkney’s fame.
The television presenter Neil Oliver fanned the flames in the New Year when he put out a feature concerning the splendid Neolithic monuments increasingly being revealed in the Ness of Brodgar. They are simply a stone’s throw from the tomb of Maeshowe whose artwork is shown on our cute jewellery and also that of our other essential jewellery selection Skara Brae.
And yet there’s a lot more ancient stone architectural structures looking to become revealed beneath the sea. The current finding of a possible henge monument on the bed of a loch some hundred metres from the Neolithic standing stones at the Ring of Brodgar is just the tip of the iceberg in the story of Orkney’s ancient monuments, archaeologists presume. The ocean bed may be the last frontier for archaeological discovery, says archaeologist Caroline Wickham-Jones, and should be stripped away through geophysical as well as other surveys to get the entire story.
No one has really performed this form of work before, especially searching for underwater stone-built monuments around the UK. And people have tended to discount spots like Orkney mainly because we’re also famous for stormy waters. So a large amount of the work under the sea for submerged constructions and archaeology has tended to occur in much more calm areas similar to the Baltic.
The ring shaped feature lying below the tranquil waters within the Loch of Stenness within the Heart of the Neolithic Orkney World Heritage site has similar measurements to the widley known Ring of Brodgar at 90 metres in diameter. It would seem to be a henge monument, a location encased by the bank and ditch. However even further investigation is essential to determine it is not a purely natural feature.
Sonar sensing along with seismic studies – have uncovered a cluster of possible interesting features near the Ness of Brodgar site, the place where a large complex of monumental buildings is being excavated nearly every single summer. Even more sonar and seismic surveys should be done to decide how much more of Neolithic Orkney lies beneath the water. Core trial samples help carbon date the previous environmental changes.
In Neolithic times 5000 years ago, sea levels had been 3-4 metres lower than that of the present-day. The archipelago of Orkney’s 70 or so isles was one large island much earlier within the Mesolithic time 7,500 years in the past when many people first landed there, with plenty of inland bays for fishing. Present sea levels were arrived at in around 2000BC.
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The challenge is to interpret what’s been uncovered – the diver spots a handful of old stones coated in seaweed – but what is it? It’s difficult enough undertaking an archaeological survey on land, let alone in our own waters with lousy visibility.
The Rising Tide mission is a relationship in between the universities of St Andrews, Wales, Dundee, Bangor and Aberdeen and uses a multi-disciplinary strategy to investigate former sea-level change along with its effect on the prehistoric human residents of Orkney. It really is one of the first teams to function in this type of high energy environment and also to be employing such a combined suite of methods. They are coming at it by means of archaeology, natural science, oral history, geography, devices on boats and divers. The sea bed is the last unexplored very last frontier on Earth in every way – with regards to fishing, geology and also in terms of human remains, say the archaeologists.
So, what is really exciting and out of the ordinary in Orkney, is the fact that we not only have impressive Neolithic remains on land as well as sometimes under the water. People are certainly getting very thrilled about the latest finds and visitor statistics this summer are anticipated to surge. Orkney organizations, including our own cute jewellery designers, are gearing up for a busy season. The VisitOrkney tourist office is reporting considerable interest and inquiries.
If more carved stones are located they might well end up being an important part of essential jewellery collections much like the Neolithic inspired pieces that have stayed popular for many years as must-have cute jewellery.