Stand at “the Ness” today and several iconic Stone Age structures are within easy view, forming the core of a World Heritage site called the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. On a heather-clad knoll ...
One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney. The builders of the chambered cairn known as Maes Howe ...
PA Media The Ring of Brodgar is among a number of sites making up the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, a Unesco world Heritage site. Nick Card, the director of the Ness of Brodgar excavation ...
On the windswept islands of Orkney, where the North Sea meets the ... starting with the most notable landmark. The heart of Kirkwall is undoubtedly the magnificent St. Magnus Cathedral, the ...
Last month, it was revealed that the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument ... assumed by experts that it came ...
to the Neolithic era when early settlers first called these islands home. This rich past came alive in the Smithsonian Channel's documentary Aerial Britain: Scotland, which highlighted Orkney's ...
Many of the Neolithic tombs were used for hundreds of years, with mortuary houses built of wood or stone. The latter, often constructed of large stones, still survive today. Midhowe: An example of a ...
The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), ...