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	Orkneyjar - Neolithic Unstan Ware and Grooved Ware
		Unstan Ware takes its name from the stalled cairn of Unstan in Stenness, where copious quantities of the distinct pottery style were found during its excavation in 1858.
		Shallow, round bottomed, and with decoration around the rim, Unstan Ware came to be associated with the early Neolithic structures and stalled cairns in Orkney, such as the Knap o' Howar.
		It appears that as Unstan Ware, and the stalled cairns, of the early stage fell out of fashion, they were replaced, as society changed and new ideas were adopted in the islands.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/2tribes.htm (445 words)

	Unstan ware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unstan ware is the name used by archaeologists for a type of finely made and decorated Neolithic pottery from the 4th millennium BC.
		It is named after Unstan chambered cairn and fort on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, a fine example of a stalled burial chamber in a circular mound, where the style of pottery was first found.
		Unstan ware may have evolved into the later grooved ware style.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unstan_ware (174 words)

	Orkneyjar - The Unstan Cairn, Stenness
		Because the roof of Unstan is modern, a concrete construction added after the site was taken into State care in 1934, the addition of a skylight gives the interior a bright and airy feel.
		As such, Unstan's crouched skeletons may represent burials made at a later period - probably the last of the inhumations made in the tomb.
		Unstan Ware was used at settlements such as the Knap o' Howar and was round-bottomed with linear decoration below the rim.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/tombs/unstan/index.html (615 words)

	Unstan Cairn Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		And a few yards further a signposted track heads north to a parking area near a farmhouse on a promontory projecting into the Loch of Stenness.
		Unstan Cairn was constructed by our neolithic ancestors on land just a few feet above the level of the Loch of Stenness, a site that leaves you wondering about the movement of sea levels since it was built some 5000 years ago.
		Within the grassy mound and under the modern roof which protects the interior, vertical slabs divide a roughly rectangular chamber into three central compartments and two end compartments: and a side chamber opens from the west side of the main chamber.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /westmainland/unstancairn/index.html (346 words)

	ipedia.com: Grooved Ware Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		As many grooved ware pots have been found at henge sites and in burials it is possible that they may have had a ritual purpose as well as a functional one.
		The style soon spread and it was used by the builders of the first phase of Stonehenge.
		Grooved ware was previously referred to as Rinyo-Clacton ware.
	www.ipedia.com /grooved_ware.html (287 words)

	Unstan ware -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Unstan ware is the name used by (An anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture) archaeologists for a type of finely made and decorated (Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere)) Neolithic pottery from the 4th millennium BC.
		Typical are elegant, round based bowls with a band of grooved patterning below the rim.
		Unstan ware may have evolved into the later (additional info and facts about grooved ware) grooved ware style
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/Un/Unstan_ware.htm (175 words)

	Elegant Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Grooved Ware such as from Skara Brae, Stenness and Quanterness was a separate distinct style and Beakers were in use during later periods.
		Unstan Ware pottery was found there (over 78 pots).
		Grooved Ware went out of use before 2250 BC and the settlements and ceremonial enclosures associated with them (suggesting centralization of power) were no longer being built.
	geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/5579/dailylifeinneolithicscotland.html (8351 words)

	Grooved ware people -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Most (Latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the middle east (but later elsewhere)) Neolithic cultures in (A monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland) Britain are best identified by the pottery remains which they left.
		One way in which the tradition may have spread is through trade routes up the west coast of Britain, but what seems unusual is that although they shared the same style of pottery, different regions still maintained vastly different traditions.
		The people who used Unstan Ware had totally different burial practices but still managed to co-exist with their Grooved Ware counterparts.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grooved_ware_people.htm (237 words)

	skara brae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		They were apparently makers and users of Grooved Ware.
		The houses were not sunk into the ground but were built into mounds of pre-existing rubbish known as "middens".
		Unusually, no Maes Howe type tombs have been found on Rousay and although there are a large number of Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairns, these were built by Unstan Ware people.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /skara_brae.html (483 words)

	Unstan Chambered Cairn - Megalithic Mysteries
		Excavated in 1884, when a large number of pottary bowls were found.
		The tomb gave its name to this particular sort of pottery - Unstan Ware.
		One of two main categories found on Orkney, these bowls have a high rim and a pointed base.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~aburnham/scot/unstan.htm (173 words)

	Grooved Ware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Grooved ware pots excavated at Balfarg in Fife have been chemically analysed to determine their contents.
		It appears that some of the vessels there may have been used to hold fl henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) which is a poison but also a powerful hallucinogen.
		Since many grooved ware pots have been found at henge sites and in burials it is possible that they may have had a ritual purpose as well as a functional one.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/Grooved_Ware (250 words)

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		The Neolithic pottery of Orkney is well known: round-based pottery (Unstan ware) is typically associated with the Early Neolithic and flat-based pottery (Grooved ware) with the Late Neolithic, and yet debate continues as to their significance beyond their traditional role as indicators of a cultural sequence.
		Owing to their coarse fabrics, petrographic analysis is ideally suited to the investigation of their material aspects, as Andrew Jones has recently shown most effectively in his study of the dynamics of Grooved ware production at the settlement at Barnhouse on Orkney (Jones 1997; 2000).
		On the other hand, there is evidence of a spatial dimension within the petrographic classification; that is, pottery from the different houses have somewhat different compositions in a manner that suggests that, as at Late Neolithic Barnhouse, the potters in individual houses were perhaps using their own recipes.
	www.ceramicpetrology.uklinux.net /maritan_abstract.html (915 words)

	GIS Map Details
		The lintel of the side cell, which is a replacement, bears a number of runes and the drawing of a bird.
		The excavations of 1884 by Clouston (R S Clouston 1885) yielded a large number of neolithic potsherds (Unstan ware), which are now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) (under E0 136-70), and several flint implements including leaf-and barbed-and-tanged arrowheads (NMAS E0 171-5).
		HY 282 117 A watching brief was undertaken in May 2002 during the excavation of a new track and car parking area for Unstan chambered cairn (HY 21 SE 5).
	www.rcahms.gov.uk:7777 /pls/portal/newcanmore.details_gis?inumlink=1740 (454 words)

	Grooved ware people - TheBestLinks.com - Grooved Ware People, Britain, Bronze Age, Chambered cairn, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Grooved Ware People, Grooved ware people, Britain, Bronze Age, Chambered cairn...
		Most Neolithic cultures in Britain are best identified by the pottery remains which they left.
		In Orkney, a variation on Grooved Ware, Unstan Ware, emerged.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Grooved_Ware_People.html (247 words)

	Unstan - Chambered Tomb - Ancient Sites Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The substantial grassy mound of the chambered tomb of Unstan rises up from a promontory by the Loch of Stenness.
		Unstan is a "stalled cairn", similar in design to tombs like Blackhammer and the Knowe of Yarso on Rousay.
		The builders of Maes Howe, The Stones of Stenness and Skara Brae were users of grooved-ware, an entirely different design of pottery which was more "beaker shaped" and flat bottomed.
	www.henge.org.uk /orkney/unstan.html (285 words)

	Knap of Howar
		These were mostly bowls and storage jars, generally round-bottomed and plain, but a few were decorated in the so-called Unstan style and probably served as tableware.
		Since Unstan ware was found in a tomb of that name on mainland Orkney, there should be a similar tomb nearby for the people of Knap of Howar.
		In fact, there is one (ORK 21) at the north end of Holm of Papa Westray, the small islet just off the east coast of the island.
	www.odysseyadventures.ca /articles/knapohowar/article_knap.htm (1190 words)

	Unston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This tomb is renowned for the number of pottery finds that were made during excavation.
		So much so that a type of finely decorated Neolithic pottery was named Unstan Ware after the tomb.
		Unstan Ware is shallow, round bottomed and bowl shaped with decoration around the rim.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /scnpscom/ancient_sites/orkney/unston.htm (80 words)

	Lanark and District Archaeological Society
		There are a number of tombs on the islands contemporary with Skarra Brae.
		Unstan chambered cairn was first excavated in 1884.
		It contained 30 broken bowls of what is now known as Unstan ware pottery.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.borthwick/LADAS/prog/01_Orkney.html (715 words)

	Chambered Cairns in Orkney
		The pottery type found in these cairns is Unstan Ware.
		These are wide, round bottomed pots, which may or may not be decorated, and are also associated with the Knap of Howar in Papay, as well as Stonehall in Firth.
		Where pottery was present it was always Grooved Ware, which are flat bottomed pots, and quite distinct from the Unstan type.
	www.maeshowe.co.uk /maeshowe/chamber.html (730 words)

	Unstan (Knowe of Onston)
		The site appears to have been entered by Viking tomb-robbers who carved some runes and a stylised bird on the lintel stone of the side chamber.
		Excavation in 1884 produced many bowls of a type often found in Orkney tombs: since then, this kind of pottery has been called Unstan Ware.
		Remains of inhumations were also found in both chambers.
	www.stonepages.com /ancient_scotland/sites/unstan.htm (124 words)

	Unstan Cairn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		One of the best known Orcadian tombs is Unstan in Stenness.
		When the tomb was excavated last century the finds included fragments of distinctive shallow bowls with decorated collars.
		Such shallow bowls are now known as Unstan Ware.
	www.orkneydigs.org.uk /unstan.html (129 words)

	British Archaeology, no 52, April 2000: Favourite finds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		But when we began to excavate the midden material outside the buildings we came across sherds of Unstan ware pottery.
		I remember how excited I was when I first held a sherd of the Unstan ware in my hand.
		Once we had Unstan ware we knew it was likely that the people were buried in a stalled cairn - because that's where the pottery is normally found - and the nearest one is on the Holm of Papa Westray, an even tinier island.
	www.britarch.ac.uk /ba/ba52/ba52int.html (681 words)

	Holm of Papa Westray North - Chambered Tomb - Ancient Sites Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A long central chamber is divided up into "stalls" with large vertically placed slabs of stone.
		This type of tomb is typically associated with users of Unstan ware pottery.
		The other major group of tombs on the islands are known as Maes Howe type as they follow a completely different plan exemplified by Maes Howe.
	www.henge.org.uk /orkney/papaynorth.html (638 words)

	Ancient Scotland - Unstan Chambered Cairn
		A bird is carved on the lintel of the side cell.
		This site is famous for the Unstan ware pottery that was found in and around the tomb.
		A carving of a bird is to be found on the lintel of the entrance to the side chamber.
	www.ancient-scotland.co.uk /site.php?a=149 (122 words)

	VisitOrkney - the official Orkney tourism website
		Leaving Stromness, head north past the swimming pool follow the main road to Kirkwall (A965) towards the Bridge of Waithe.
		On the left just past the bridge is the Unstan Chambered Cairn.
		The cairn gives its name to a class of Neolithic pottery - Unstan Ware.
	www.visitorkney.com /cycling.asp (594 words)

	Stone Pages Archaeo News: Mystery Neolithic wooden structures in Orkney
		Also found were the remains of a stone Neolithic structure which appears to be contemporary with the nearby houses at Stonehall and possibly dates from around 3,600 BCE.
		A short distance away is an area rich in finds, including stone axes, broken tools, quantities of flint and, especially, the decorated pottery known as Unstan Ware.
		There has been tons of Unstan Ware pottery, which only turned up in small quantities at the Knap of Howar.
	www.stonepages.com /news/archives/000167.html (440 words)

	Island Explorations - Rousay
		A two-storied cairn, it had two separate entrances.Pottery bowls were found here.
		Another stalled cairn, it contained two burials, a flint knife, an axe head and an Unstan ware bowl, which was broken.
		The largest excavated Stone Age cairn of its kind in Orkney, Midhowe Cairn is protected from the elements by a modern 'hangar' type building.
	www.orkney.org /islands/rousayinterest.htm (494 words)

	The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map
		In places the walls were preserved to full height, with lintels still in place over the doorways.
		Excavation by Anna Ritchie in the 1970's revealed sherds of Unstan Ware (identical to that found in the many chambered cairns on Orkney) and material giving radiocarbon dates of between 3600 to 3100 BC.
		The two structures face the sea to the west.
	www.megalithic.co.uk /print.php?sid=872788502 (336 words)

	Overview of Unstan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The site of a prehistoric chambered tomb, situated 2½ miles (4 km) northeast of Stromness on Mainland Orkney.
		It was excavated in 1884 by an Orkney antiquarian R.S. Clouston and is remarkable for the number of pottery bowls ('Unstan Ware') uncovered.
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