“For starters, you have to stop thinking of Orkney as remote,” says Caroline Wickham-Jones, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. “For most of history, from the Neolithic ...

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is vulnerable to the sea level changes, precipitation changes, and storm intensity and ...

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Orkney Islands Council (OIC ... and the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. The new management plan, which builds on the ...

But moving a rock from northern mainland Scotland or Orkney would have involved a journey ... a senior research fellow at the ...

The stones are made of local sandstone, which can be split into thin slabs. Located in Orkney, Scotland. Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar): Also in Orkney, this is a large henge (with a ditch but no bank) ...

One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic ...

A MASSIVE pit containing around 20,000 bits of shellfish has been discovered on the Scottish island of Orkney.

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