This Lunar Pearl dress necklace in sterling silver features Sheilas cup-mark design, delicately hanging from a silver neckwire. The circular design has a textured finish with a slightly concave centre, hand-enamelled in ‘Mill Sands’ enamel, and set with a 6mm pearl in our Orkney workshop.

Thousands of years ago at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney, people carved hollows or cup-marks of various sizes in rough rock, perhaps to signify an event or to follow the passage of time as the moon waxed and waned. Sheila first sketched the idea behind this collection in 2012 while visiting the Orkney Museum in Kirkwall, where some of these carvings can be seen. Sheilas designs are textured like the surface of rock and enamelled in a variety of colours.