They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of ...

Article continues below Situated on Orkney's Mainland, it has an incredible history dating back around 5,000 years. On first glance, Cuween Hill looks like any other hill in the surrounding landscape.

But Orkney's trump card is history: Stone Age history, Viking history, World War naval history (both World War I and World War II, when submarines sank battleships in Scapa Flow and the whole ...

On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...

Just outside the complex of houses, a workshop stands on its own where chert - a local flint substitute - was made into stone tools. Also, volcanic pumice, washed up on Orkney's beaches from ...

Huge stones weighing up to 30 tons were dragged ... was caught in a terrible blizzard during an attack on Orkney. He and three companions sheltered in Maes Howe for three long days waiting for ...

Just outside the complex of houses, a workshop stands on its own where chert - a local flint substitute - was made into stone tools. Also, volcanic pumice, washed up on Orkney's beaches from ...