The Ring of Brodgar | Skara Brae | Orkney Food | The Italian Chapel,... | St Magnus - Patron ... In the winter of 1850 an extremely violent storm hit the west coast of mainland Orkney. As well as ...

She says: "Everybody on site is looking towards Gordon Childe", who led the excavation of Skara Brae in 1928 and 1929. The Neolithic village at the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Orkney's ...

Pupils from Stenness Community School in Orkney visited Skara Brae to learn about its history. Watch below to find out what they discovered. This is a view of Skara Brae looking out to sea over ...

Nigel Thompson sails from Iceland to Denmark via the Orkney Islands and the Scottish Highlands, spotting wildlife, ...

Life in Stone Age Orkney was far more refined than once imagined. The well-built homes at Skara Brae, Europe’s most complete Neolithic village, included stone hearths, beds, and cupboards.

The greatest concern on Orkney surrounds the village of Skara Brae which is believed to have been occupied about 5,000 years ago - between about 3100BC and 2500BC. The archaeological site was ...

With bus tours to the Ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae readily available from the cruise port, the pull of Orkney for tourists—and the cruise companies—is understandable. But for locals ...

Orkney was at the heart of a seafaring neolithic ... Of the sites that survive here from this late era of the Stone Age, the ...

But Orkney's trump card is history ... In other words, not a bad place for photography. Skara Brae. Stone Age folk were living in this village long before Stonehenge was built.

A small-ship cruise takes in the UK’s most northerly islands, which are closer to Norway’s Bergen than they are to Scotland’s ...

The Latin tag abi tu, et fac similiter—go, thou, and do likewise—was widely encountered in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is ...

We shape our buildings,” said Winston Churchill in 1943, “and afterwards our buildings shape us.” Churchill was speaking ...