Scotland's 'best places to see stone circles and standing stones' crowned
Another destination to see stone circles according to Love From Scotland is the Outer Hebrides. Like Orkney, Scotland's ...
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Before Stonehenge
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 ...
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Mystery of Stonehenge deepens after ‘jaw-dropping’ discovery
Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery. Mineralogical tests on the ...
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Unsung Places: Orkney in the North Sea
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 ...
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What was life like in the Neolithic Stone Age?
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 ...
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In Depth: Skara Brae
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 ...
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In Depth: Skara Brae
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 ...