HeritageDaily: Evidence for Oldest Prehistoric Textiles in Scotland Discovered at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney.
Evidence of woven Neolithic textile has been confirmed at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research excavation at the Ness of Brodgar.
Only one other such example has been found in Scotland. The archaeologists at the site don’t physically have a piece of 5,000-year-old fabric, but the impression it leaves when pressed against the wet clay of a pot.
Organic material from prehistory does not survive often unless in very specific oxygen-free conditions in the archaeological record, so the study of Neolithic textiles has to rely on secondary evidence.
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