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 ...

She had lived here, on the land between the lochs, for six years, and she had become used to the view, Orkney’s everyday miracle: the hills of Hoy, the waters of Stenness and Harray, and, just ...

But Orkney's trump card is history: Stone Age history, Viking history, World War naval history (both World War I and World War II, when submarines sank battleships in Scapa Flow and the whole ...

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 ...

Very few other signs of settlement from the late Neolithic Age remain to us, probably due to their timber construction, but the inhabitants of Orkney, being dependent on stone for construction ...

There's also the Orkney Museum a 1570s townhouse filled with artefacts on the area's history from the Stone Age to present day; and Bishop’s and Earl's Palaces - the enduring stone ruins of two ...