Skara Brae is a Neolithic village located on the Bay of Skaill, on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney Islands in Scotland.

With a population of 22,000, Orkney may seem small, but there is a lot to entertain the 200,000 annual cruise visitors keen ...

Orkney is home to a collection of Stone Age sites that are recognised internationally. Together, these form a UNESCO World Heritage site called the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney." These locations ...

Orkney is home to a collection of Stone Age sites that are recognised internationally. Together, these form a UNESCO World Heritage site called the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney." These locations give us ...

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Orkney Islands Council (OIC) have opened the public consultation for feedback on the draft management plan for the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The management ...

The Orkney archipelago was an epicenter of Neolithic life ... area known as Trench P contains a cluster of buildings at the heart of the Ness complex. Structure 1, among the oldest, was built ...

Standing Stones of Stenness dates from at least 3100BC and are part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney.Credit: iStock There are 20 inhabited islands, and dozens more that aren’t, with Orkney ...

With many Neolithic monuments ... concludes that the six-tonne Altar Stone at the heart of the ancient site was not sourced from Mainland Orkney but elsewhere within north-eastern Scotland.

That's the whole of the Neolithic time period in Britain ... Martin Fleet, chairman of tourism body Destination Orkney, says it has been "at the heart" of their summer season since digging began.

Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument ... is the southern British Neolithic choice of northern Scotland, potentially Orkney, as a symbolic partner in ...