The Orkney Islands are rich in prehistoric sites ... In their stately ruins, the remains of these structures offer glimpses of the Stone Age people who made them, people at once familiar and ...

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 ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain – the Neolithic period (or new Stone Age): As well as ... like they are today. On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there ...

About 5,000 years ago, two stone circles were built in what is now southwest England, proving that Stonehenge was not the only circle from the Stone Age in the ... of Brodger on Orkney, Avebury ...

Experts believe limpets and periwinkles were cooked at the Iron Age feasting site and the shells ... A number of carved stone discs have also been found, which are thought to be counters.

The northern isles of the Orkney archipelago receive fewer visitors than the main island (known as the Mainland) and those to ...