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 ...

About 5,000 years ago, two stone circles were built in what is now southwest England, proving that Stonehenge was not the ...

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 ...

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.