Creative Orkney and Orkney 2025 ran a competition for the design of the medals and ribbon. Judges picked islander Jodie Brown's standing stones medal design to feature on all 1,272 medals presented at ...

Located in Orkney, Scotland. Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar): Also in ... The other circle contained a standing stone more than 5m in height. Leading away from the henge were two avenues of paired ...

Also in Orkney, the large flat stones of Stenness ... is well known – but researchers now believe that the earliest standing stone monuments were constructed specifically in line with the ...

The Orkney Islands are rich in prehistoric sites ... It is up to the archaeologists to make sense of it all. A circle of 27 standing stones, likely a ceremonial meeting place, that may once ...

But Orkney's trump card is history ... Marching like giants, the stones standing on this great henge were erected 4,500 years ago, part of a huge Neolithic spiritual world still mysterious ...

There are standing stone monuments on the island dating to Orkney's oldest human inhabitants. Archaeologists have also found evidence of Bronze Age houses and Iron Age farming activity.

In 1955 in Orkney a brother and sister married their sweethearts at the same ceremony and now they are celebrating with family 70 years on. The Right Reverend Anne Dyer returned to work after ...

Designed by competition winner Jodie Brown, the medal features three standing stones, and the ribbon, designed by Olivia Yorston, incorporates the colours of the Orkney flag. Credit: Kirstin ...

A standing stone was erected next to it and they dug ... was caught in a terrible blizzard during an attack on Orkney. He and three companions sheltered in Maes Howe for three long days waiting ...

THE COUNTDOWN is on until the Orkney 2025 Island Games, with tomorrow (Thursday) marking just 100 days to go until the games ...