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  • Lobster fishermen return to North Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland after a morning working their lobster pots.  The boat is a North Ronaldsay Pram, unique to this small island of about 60 peope. The lighthouse is the Old Beacon at Dennis Head, built in 1789 by Thomas Smith.
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  • Stromness is an historic fishing town in Orkney, Scotland. Once a whaling port with houses laid out along the harbor.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130819_34774.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130818_34665.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • Cuween Chambered Cairn is a neolithic burial chamber on Cuween Hill on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.  It dates from about 3,000 BCE and is similar in design to Maeshowe. It has exquisite stonework reflect great skill of the builder, and contains four side chambers.
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • On Orkney, the group of islands off the north coast of Scotland.Balfour Castle is the focal point of Shapinsay, one of the islands in Orkney.
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • The beautiful Rackwick Valley and beach on Hoy are some of the most dramatic scenery in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The wide beach is strewn with massive stones, polished round by the unrelenting sea.
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
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  • The Watchstone stands at the end of the bridge that connects Stenness with the Ness of Brodgar. Part of the ancient neolithic landscape of Orkney and roughly contemporary with the other standing stones nearby.
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  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
    MM7902_20130805_12585-Edit.jpg
  • The islands of Orkney Scotland sprawl across the North Sea, a convoluted combination of low land, beaches, and tidal flats which are in constant flux. The seas between the islands is generally very shallow so that the actual landscape of the Neolithic era may well have been much different, depending on the rapidly rising sea level. For the last five thousand years they have remained in motion, their outlines changing decade by decade.
    MM7902_20130805_12570-Edit.jpg
  • The sheep on North Ronaldsay are unique to that island in the Orkney's of Scotland.  They feed exclusively on seaweed and will die if left to feed on grass in the surrounding pastures.  The island council maintains a stone fence around the island to keep the sheep on the beaches.
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  • The beautiful Rackwick Valley and beach on Hoy are some of the most dramatic scenery in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The wide beach is strewn with massive stones, polished round by the unrelenting sea.
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  • Neolithic Orkney featured in National Geographic. The Standing Stones of Stenness on the cover.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
    MM7902_20130819_34798.jpg
  • The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Various traditions associated with the stones survived into the modern era and they form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. They are looked after by Historic Scotland. Sheep are sometimes put in to graze amongst the stones, reflective of their origin during the time when the Neolithic people were learning agriculture.
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  • Located on at cliff edge at Isbister on South Ronaldsay in Orkney, Scotland, the Tomb of the Eagles is a Neolithic chambered tomb. 16,000 human bones were found at the site, as well as 725 from birds, mostly sea eagles. Discovered and excavated by farmer Ronald Simison.
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  • Grave stones dating from the 1600's line the inside walls of St. Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.  The design of the stone is traditional with several Orkney twists.  The skull and crossbones remind us all (as if we needed it) or our mortality.  At the time it was common for an Orkney bride to prepare burial shroulds for herself and her husband at the same time that she was making a blanket for the first bairn (child.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Island Ceilidh, Orkney Saturday night on Eday and the Sanday Fiddle Club is at the community center to perform for the folks of Eday.  The thirty or so young fidders rode the ferry over from the neighboring island and stayed the night in the center before taking the morning ferry back.  This is a pretty typical island ceilidh, a dance and dinner with traditional Scottish dancing and Scottish food (as well as a fair amount of drink.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • With a great tradition of myth, music and literature Orkney folk very much appreciate Margaret Leask and a couple of friends at the regular Saturday night entertainment in the bar at the Royal Hotel in Stromness.  They play a lot of Scottish music, reels and the like, and then get around to everything including Turkey in the Straw.  Orkney, Scotland
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  • The Broch of Gurness on the shores of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.  The Broch is a large stone dwelling in the form of a circular stone fortification.  These views look across from the top of the wall, down into the central dwelling and then across the sea to the island of Rousay to the north.  Brochs are a common feature of the coast of Orkney which is littered with stone age sites.
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  • Sheep and lambs graze by the Standing Stones of Stenness, one of several Orkney stone circles dating from before the time of Christ. The stones are in the protection of the National Trust for Scotland.  The sheep lend a touch of life and continuity to the ancient setting and are often the most memorable sight to the thousands of visitors who come the sight every year.  The Trust feels that the sheep cause no damage and belong in the landscape.  (But they still have a crew mow the grass regularly.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Spreading malted grain for drying in Highland Park Distillery, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Orkney, Scotland
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  • Lobster fishing in Orkney on the island of North Ronaldsay, Scotland, UK.<br />
 Ian Delyell takes his North Ronaldsay Pram out to run his crab and lobster creels around the north coast of North Ronaldsay. Delyell is a crofter, meaning that he farms a bit, fishes a bit, and does other odd jobs to make ends meet on the tiny island (four miles by two miles.) He and his helper are pulling up single creels (mostly) that Delyell drops into single, special holes he knows about from decades of fishing (his father fished here before him.) He triangulates his position from landmarks on shore and "reads" the bottom to place he creels exactly. The get about a pound (Sterling) per kilo of crabs and about nine pounds per kilo of lobsters.
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  • Composer Peter Maxwell Davies conducting the London Symphony in Orkney, Scotland at the St. Magnus Festival.
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  • Mrs. Sandra Thomson, one of the Sanday knitters works in her tiny house on the island of Sanday.  The knitters are a sort of cooperative, marketing knitwear for several dozen women on the island.  Mrs. Thomson does all her knitting by hand and likes to stand in front of her window so she can see who is going by.  (She had a pair of binoculars there, just in case.)  Orkney, Scotland
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  • Members of the St. Magnus Chorus rehearse in  St. Magnus Cathedral for a performance during the St. Magnus Festival, a weeklong event that brings major performers to the island towns of Kirkwall (here) and Stromness. Orkney, Scotland
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  • Seagulls follow a fishing boat in Orkney, Scotland
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  • St. Magnus Kirk on Egilsay, Orkney, Scotland. Believed to be built on the site where St. Magnus was martyred during a dispute with his cousin.
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  • Orkney farmer Ronald Simison in the Tomb of the Eagles holding one of the skulls he discovered during his excavation of the site.  He discovered the tomb in 1958 and excated it some 20 years later, tired of waiting for the officials to get around to the job.  Now he and his daughters have made a small business of the tomb, operating it as a hands-on museum.  It is on Isbister Farm on South Ronaldsay.  Eagle claws found with the skulls indicated the status of the people burried in the chambered cairn.
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  • Rowing out to his boat in the evening in Stromness harbor, Orkney, Scotland.
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  • The Old Beacon lighthouse at Dennis Head, built in 1789 by Thomas Smith, on North Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Highland cow grazing in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Cat at an abondoned croft house in the Rackwick Valley on the Isle of Hoy, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Students at the Stomness Academy, Orkney, scotland take a nautical class which is best described as "Drivers Education" on the water. Almost all students take the class which strives to give them a modicum of knowledge and familiarity with water saftey on an Island where water is one of the few constants.  This was a fairly new class, just trying to learn to row together.  Some of the kids had a bit more experience than others.
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  • Island Ceilidh, Orkney, Scotland.  Saturday night on Eday and the Sanday Fiddle Club is at the community center to perform for the folks of Eday.  The thirty or so young fidders rode the ferry over from the neighboring island and stayed the night in the center before taking the morning ferry back.  This is a pretty typical island ceilidh, a dance and dinner with traditional Scottish dancing and Scottish food (as well as a fair amount of drink.)
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  • Sheep bedding down for the evening amongst the Stones of Stenness, Orkney, Scotland
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  • Farms with rich grazing land in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Dancing at an island Ceilidh in Orkney, Scotland
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  • Mrs. Sandra Thomson, one of the Sanday knitters works in her tiny house on the island of Sanday.  The knitters are a sort of cooperative, marketing knitwear for several dozen women on the island.  Mrs. Thomson does all her knitting by hand and likes to stand in front of her window so she can see who is going by.  (She had a pair of binoculars there, just in case.) Orkney, Scotland
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  • Owen and Tom Rudge on their father's fishing boat at the Sanday harbor.  Rudge moved to the island some years back for a change in lifestyle and to raise his family in a quiet, crime-free environment.  He uses the boat for lobster and crab fishing. Orkney, Scotland
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  • The Ness of Brodgar is a long, narrow isthmus of land between Loch Harray and Loch Stenness in Orkney, Scotland. It is the site of much of the heritage of the neolithic era in Orkney. The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
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  • Artifacts from the Ness of Brodgar dig site in Orkney, Scotland. The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
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  • Artifacts from the Ness of Brodgar dig site in Orkney, Scotland. The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_20130807_13643.jpg
  • The Ness of Brodgar is a long, narrow isthmus of land between Loch Harray and Loch Stenness in Orkney, Scotland. It is the site of much of the heritage of the neolithic era in Orkney. The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_20130805_11863.jpg
  • The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
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  • The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
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  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
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  • Maeshowe is the classic Orkney chambered tomb of Neolithic origins, dating from around 3,000 BCE. It is the largest of the tombs on Orkney, set on a raised earthen platform surround by a ditch, and incorporating previous standing stones into the chamber construction. It's setting in the midst of agricultural land reflects the Neolithic tansition to agriculture. Maeshowe is a World Heritage Site.
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  • Maeshowe is the classic Orkney chambered tomb of Neolithic origins, dating from around 3,000 BCE. It is the largest of the tombs on Orkney, set on a raised earthen platform surround by a ditch, and incorporating previous standing stones into the chamber construction. It's setting in the midst of agricultural land reflects the Neolithic tansition to agriculture. Maeshowe is a World Heritage Site.
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  • The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_20120815_09336.jpg
  • Maeshowe is the classic Orkney chambered tomb of Neolithic origins, dating from around 3,000 BCE. It is the largest of the tombs on Orkney, set on a raised earthen platform surround by a ditch, and incorporating previous standing stones into the chamber construction. It's setting in the midst of agricultural land reflects the Neolithic tansition to agriculture. Maeshowe is a World Heritage Site.
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  • Maeshowe is the classic Orkney chambered tomb of Neolithic origins, dating from around 3,000 BCE. It is the largest of the tombs on Orkney, set on a raised earthen platform surround by a ditch, and incorporating previous standing stones into the chamber construction. It's setting in the midst of agricultural land reflects the Neolithic tansition to agriculture. Maeshowe is a World Heritage Site.
    MM7902_ 20120806_03117-Edit.jpg
  • The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_ 20120803_01725.jpg
  • The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
    MM7902_ 20120806_02975.jpg
  • Maeshowe is the classic Orkney chambered tomb of Neolithic origins, dating from around 3,000 BCE. It is the largest of the tombs on Orkney, set on a raised earthen platform surround by a ditch, and incorporating previous standing stones into the chamber construction. It's setting in the midst of agricultural land reflects the Neolithic tansition to agriculture. Maeshowe is a World Heritage Site.
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  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
    MM7902_20130806_13214.jpg
  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
    MM7902_ 20120806_03336-Edit-Edit.jpg
  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
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  • Midhowe is a large Neolithic chambered cairn located on the south shore of the island of Rousay, Orkney, Scotland. The tomb is a particularly well preserved example of the Orkney-Cromarty type of chambered cairn. Tombs of this type are often referred to as "stalled" cairns due to their distinctive internal structure.
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  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
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  • Orkney potter and ardent student of archeology Andrew Appleby built a turf kilm at the Ness of Brodgar to fire some of the pots he as made using the patterns of Neolithic pottery found at the dig site. Appleby has done extensive research into the materials and methods Neolithic potters could have used to make their pottery. His kiln included the use of Bere barley husks to tamp down the fire, cattle bones to support the pottery and add heat to the fire, and grass to cap the kiln. Red hot pots can be seen emerging from the fires in the evening.
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  • The Ring of Brodgar is a neolithic henge monument with a stone circle in Orkney, Scotland. It is over 300 feed in diameter and of the original 60 stones 27 remained standing into the 20th Century.  It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. It is thought to have been erected between 3,000 and 2,000 BCE.
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  • Stromness is a fishing village in Orkney, Scotland.
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  • In the Highland Park whisky warehouse in Kirkwall, Orkney
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  • A North Ronaldsay Pram, a type of fishing boat particular to that island, on the shore of North Ronaldsay, gOrkney, Scotland
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  • David Scott coaches his sons David, 16 and Douglas, 14 (the bigger of the two boys) in practice at the Sands of Wright on South Ronaldsay.  With the competition at the Gala several weeks away the fathers start getting their sons ready for the highly charged contest.  The boys are the third generation of Scotts who have been champions of the plowing, their father and grandfather have been champions as boys themselves.  Judging is on evenness of the furrows, etc.
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  • Drying barley that has been malted at Highland Park distillery, Orkney, Scotland.
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  • Artifacts from the Links of Noltland site in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • The archeology dig site at the Ness of Brodgar in Orkney that is revealing a Neolithic sacred site hitherto unknown. The dig is under the direction of Nick Card from ORCA in Orkney. Large structures are coming to light after several years of digging, revealing a 1,000 year history of occupation and development at the transitional period between hunter/gatherer society and the coming of agriculture.
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  • Artifacts from the Links of Noltland site in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • Artifacts from the Links of Noltland site in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • The Knap of Howar on the small island of Papa Westray is the oldest house in Northern Europe, predating even the village of Skara Brae on the nearby Mainland of Orkney, Scotland.  The two side-by-side dwellings are in a remarkable state of preservation, reflecting daily life in the Neolithic era.
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  • The Pierowall Stone was a lintel on a now-lost burial cairn in Westray, Orkney, Scotland. It was found in pieces at a quarry after the tomb had been unknowingly destroyed.
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  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • Smoke drying malted barley at Highland Park Distillery, Kirkwall, Orkney
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  • Whisky casks in warehouse, Highland Park Distillery, Orkney, Scotland.
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  • Drying malted grain at Highland Park Distillery in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland.
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  • The sheep on North Ronaldsay are unique to that island in the Orkney's of Scotland.  They feed exclusively on seaweed and will die if left to feed on grass in the surrounding pastures.  The island council maintains a stone fence around the island to keep the sheep on the beaches.
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  • The Links of Noltland is the site of a major archeological dig by Historic Scotland, as they try to research and preserve the site that is under threat from the winds blowing off the nearby beach on the island of Westray. The site had major occupation for several thousand years, from the neolithic to the bronze and iron ages.
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  • Looking down on the Pierowall and its natural harbor on Westray, Orkney, Scotland.
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  • A family bible lies open in a deserted croft house on North Ronaldsay, the most remote of the Orkney Islands.  When crofters left (or were displaced by landowners) they often simply walked away, evidenced by the cups and saucers still sitting on the shelves.  The slate roof has fallen in letting in the rain and sunlight.
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  • Children try on their elaborate costumes for their part as "horses" during the St. Margaret's Hope Gala in August.  The gala in the little South Ronaldsay community features boys plowing at the Sands of Wright outside of town, a century old competition.  Each plow is accompanied by a "horse," with the mothers of the children assembling highly decorated costumes for the competition, which can be quite fierce.
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  • Ian Delyell takes his North Ronaldsay Pram out to run his crab and lobster creels around the north coast of North Ronaldsay.  Delyell is a crofter, meaning that he farms a bit, fishes a bit, and does other odd jobs to make ends meet on the tiny island (four miles by two miles.) He and his helper are pulling up single creels (mostly) that Delyell drops into single, special holes he knows about from decades of fishing (his father fished here before him.)  He triangulates his position from landmarks on shore and "reads" the bottom to place he creels exactly. The get about a pound (Sterling) per kilo of crabs and about nine pounds per kilo of lobsters.
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  • The Faroe Islands halfway between Orkney and Iceland
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  • Views of the Rackwick Valley on the west coast of Hoy.  This valley was one of the first to be settled by Norse incomers (Vikings) and was for centuries a properous community in an idyllic setting.  Now it is largely abandoned but has lost none of its scenic appeal.  Only one crofter still farms here but others have come to convert old croft houses into summer cottages, including the composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.  These views look over some of the ruined croft houses and other views look down on a small seaside cottage with the cliffs and beach beyond.g
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