Westray Wife

Yeah.

This tiny figurine is known as the Westray Wifey, and despite her homespun appearance, she may be the earliest known expression of religious identity ever found in Scotland.

She's really sweet.

She's got a very cartoon-like face, hasn't she?

... at the end of the period.

So it gives you much more of an insight into how people's minds worked at the time.

If the researchers are right, then the Westray wifey is unique, a 5,000-year-old household goddess perhaps.

Figurines of this type are usually thought to be goddesses or, you know, some r- religious deity kind of thing.

I think you can take her out.

Very small, yeah.

This tiny figurine is known as the Westray Wifey, and despite her homespun appearance, she may be the earliest known expression of religious identity ever found in Scotland.

She's really sweet.

She's got a very cartoon-like face, hasn't she? Uh-huh, she has.

We're actually seeing how people thought, you know, that they decided that this was a good way to close this building off at the end of the period.

So it gives you much more of an insight into how people's minds worked at the time.

If the researchers are right, then the Westray wifey is unique.