The copper alloy coin was found at the Knowe of Swandro, the location of a Neolithic chambered ... and fourth centuries AD. Swandro-Orkney Coastal Archaeology Trust The roundhouse where the ...

“For starters, you have to stop thinking of Orkney as remote,” says Caroline Wickham-Jones, a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. “For most of history, from the Neolithic ...

Orkney’s archaeology never fails to stun now work ... The Ness of Brodgar, a huge Neolithic complex of monumental structures in the heart of the Orkney mainland that would have dominated the ...

One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic ...

Beyond its beam lies the Orkney archipelago ... the lives of Neolithic people. The site, dating back 5,000 years, is Europe’s most complete Neolithic village. Each stone house follows a similar ...

Skara Brae: Relatively few Neolithic settlement sites have been excavated. Skara Brae (Orkney) is particularly well known because it is a village of small stonehouses in which much of the furniture ...

Many of the Neolithic tombs were used for hundreds of years, with mortuary houses built of wood or stone. The latter, often constructed of large stones, still survive today. Midhowe: An example of a ...

One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney ... Maes Howe was the house of the dead ...