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Multi-periodSite Name: Links of Noltland Alternative Name: Links o' Noltland
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement

Map Ref: HY42804930
Latitude: 59.326189N  Longitude: 3.006882W
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drolaf visited on 23rd Jun 2023 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 3 the site is covered with old tarp and stones, but a couple of houses you can see the central hearths.

SandyG visited on 12th Jun 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4

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Links of Noltland
Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : Bronze Age house. Note the slab lined tank adjacent to the doorway and the absence of paving slabs around the entrance. (12th June 2015). (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village in Orkney. The Links o' Noltland is an area of sand dunes behind Grobust Bay on the north-west coast of Westray. First recorded by the 19th century antiquarian George Petrie, the presence of important archaeological remains has been known about for years.

But it was only in the 20th century that excavations were carried out, when the National Museum, under the direction of Dr David Clarke, investigated the site between 1978 and 1981. These excavations focused on one Neolithic building, which comprised two rooms joined by a passage.

The building, which was reminiscent of the houses at Skara Brae, had been built into a pit dug into sand and lined with midden material.

It produced a large number of artefacts, including grooved ware pottery, worked bone objects and flint and stone artefacts.

In 1984, the site, and a large surrounding area, was designated as a Property in Care (PIC), managed on behalf of the state by Historic Scotland.

Source Orkneyjar and see update for 2008.

Sand dunes seal and protect these significant prehistoric remains in a fragile environment requiring careful management. Little can normally be seen of the remains.

Note: Previously undiscovered 'Ritual Building' found at the Links of Noltland, preservation described as like 'Bronze Age Skara Brae'
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Links of Noltland
Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : General view of the site from the north. This may be the final large-scale season of work at this really impressive site which is well worth making the effort to visit. (12th June 2015). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : A small Neolithic building complete with internal fittings. (12th June 2015). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : Interior of a Neolithic house being excavated. View from west. (12th June 2015). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : Bronze Age house being recorded. View from north west. (12th June 2015). (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : Substantial wall forming part of the Neolithic settlement. Midden deposits visible in section to the right. (12th June 2015).

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Links of Noltland submitted by PAB : As at mid-June 2016, work was just about to start on further excavations, and some of the workings were visible where the winter winds had removed the protective coverings placed after last year's work. The team seem to be very happy to have people call in at the site and explain what is happening - perhaps worth checking the links provided in the various postings last year.

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Links of Noltland submitted by PAB : Just one winter....there may be artefacts under here which are thousands of years old, but some of our modern material hasn't coped with just one Orkney winter!

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Links of Noltland submitted by PAB : June 2016 – The team of archaeologists starting the 2016 season of excavations this week are first having to deal with the results of an Orkney winter - the winds have covered some of the site with 'new' sand, and uncovered other parts of last year's excavations. The 'sauna' referred to in last year's postings and uncovered in 2015 will be one of the focal points of the excavations – it w...

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Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : Neolithic house with rounded exterior walls and straight interior walling. Edge set slabs denote interior structures. (12th June 2015).

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Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG : Detail of Neolithic midden deposits. The preservation of organic material is remarkable. (12th June 2015).

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Re: Links of Noltland Open Days by Andy B on Saturday, 10 March 2018
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Links of Noltland is a brilliantly preserved farming settlement dating from about 3000 BC to 1100 BC. Neolithic remains include a dozen buildings and the ‘Westray Wifie’ figurine. Grobust Bay is also home to Orkney’s largest Bronze Age settlement.

Visit from May to September, when it’s possible to see the site uncovered as excavation work continues. Links of Noltland has featured on BBC Two series Digging for Britain.

View an interactive aerial tour of the most recent excavations.
http://www.flyingscotscam.com/HS/index.html

More at
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/links-of-noltland/
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Previously undiscovered 'Ritual Building' found at Links of Noltland by howar on Friday, 25 September 2015
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A new “ritual building” unearthed at Links of Noltland, Westray, has been described by experts as the best example of a preserved Bronze Age building yet uncovered in Orkney.

The building, encased within a stony mound had not been investigated until now, but, as the structure stands less than 5m from the coast edge and is suffering the effects of erosion, experts felt the time was right to examine it in more detail.

Work in May this year revealed stonework eroding out of the coast edge in front of the mound. Further investigation led to the discovery of an almost perfectly preserved well house, with a stairway leading down to a 2.5m deep cistern.

EASE Archaeology’s Hazel Moore said: “There is much yet to investigate, but already the findings are that this is undoubtedly the best preserved BA building yet uncovered in Orkney — a Bronze Age Skara Brae which has been preserved through a rare set of circumstances — with the ability to shed much new light on the life and ritual of a small farming community living through a period of immense environmental change.”

http://www.orcadian.co.uk/2015/09/new-ritual-building-discovered-at-links-of-noltland/ with more to come in next weeks "The Orcadian"
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    Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age ‘sauna house’ in Orkney by Andy B on Tuesday, 29 September 2015
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    Archaeologists in Orkney have uncovered the remains of over 30 buildings dating from around 4000 BC to 1000 BC, together with field systems, middens and cemeteries. The find includes a very rare Bronze Age building which experts believed could have been a sauna or steam house, which may have been built for ritual purposes.

    EASE Archaeology recently made the exciting discovery on the periphery of the prehistoric Links of Noltland, on the island of Westray in Orkney, next to where the famous ‘Westray Wife’ was found in 2009, which is believed to be the earliest depiction of a human face in Britain.

    Work has been carried out at the Links of Noltland for several years now but the most recent discovery, and one of the most remarkable to date, is that of an almost complete and remarkably well-preserved, very rare Bronze Age building which experts believe had a very specialised function and was used by select groups for activities such as rites of passage or spiritual ceremonies. It’s also possible that the building could have been used as a sweat house or sauna, for a number of activities ranging from basic healing and cleansing, or as a place where women could come to give birth, the sick and elderly could come to die, or where bodies were taken before burial.

    Rod McCullagh, Deputy Head of Archaeology Strategy at Historic Scotland said: “This is a beautifully preserved site with lots of tantalising clues pointing to its use as an important building, central to the community who built it. We know this was a large building, with a complex network of cells attached to it and a sizeable tank of water in the central structure which would likely have been used to produce boiling water and steam – which could have been used to create a sauna effect. What this would have been used for we don’t know exactly but the large scale, elaborate architecture and sophistication of the structure all suggest that it was used for more than just cooking. Whether its purpose was for feasting, rituals, important discussions, or maybe just for the same reasons we use saunas for today, is something we don’t yet know. This is just the start of an exciting but painstaking process of analysis and research work but one which gradually adds to our understanding of what activities occurred here 4000 years ago.”

    The early analysis work suggested that the building is likely to be a ‘burnt mound’, which generally comprises of a fireplace, water tank and a pile of burnt stone. Through experimentation and reference to medieval Irish literature, experts have been able to deduce that stones were roasted on a hearth before being placed into the tank of water, bringing the water to a boiling point and producing lots of steam.

    The hot water could then be used to cook large quantities of food or for bathing, brewing, textile working, or any other of a range of activities.

    The hidden nature of the building together with its restricted access and tightly packed cells, suggest that it served a more specialised function than most burnt mounds and that rather than being a gathering place for the many, it would have been used by a more select group, and likely used a sauna or steam house. Examples in other countries show that such places are frequently associated with the performance of rites of passage and spiritual activities. In Scandinavia, for example, saunas represent 'safe' places associated with cleansing and healing but also where deals are done and important discussions take place. In Native American traditions, the architecture of the sweat lodge is heavily prescribed and rituals concerned with the spirit world are enacted.

    In the cold windy conditions in which the Bronze Age people at Noltland, the concept of an underground building, filled with fire and steam, is likely to have stirred the imagination. It may even have been consciously designed as a stage for ritual activity- perhaps in the form of a cult house or sanctuary.


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Sands of Time: Domestic Rituals at the Links of Noltland by Andy B on Wednesday, 23 January 2013
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Rapid erosion has revealed spectacular Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology on the coast of Westray, Orkney. Contemporary with the Ness of Brodgar’s religious monuments but with a domestic focus, what can this settlement tell us about daily life in prehistoric Orkney? Hazel Moore and Graeme Wilson explain:

Overlooking the North Atlantic on the island of Westray, the Links of Noltland boasts an impressive prehistoric landscape stretching over 4ha. Comprising the well-preserved remains of over 20 buildings – including Neolithic structures contemporary with, and comparable to, the famous ‘village’ at Skara Brae – together with extensive middens, field systems, and a cemetery, the site is revolutionising knowledge of Neolithic and Bronze Age Orkney.

Noltland’s wealth of archaeological features is in danger of being lost, however. Facing into the wind and exposed to almost constant salt spray, the site is at severe risk of erosion, with the dune system that has protected it for millennia rapidly depleting. Designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a property in care of Scottish Ministers, managed on their behalf by Historic Scotland, the settlement has been closely monitored for change since the 1980s, but by 2005 it was clear that – for reasons still not fully understood – the scale of erosion was accelerating at an unprecedented level. Matters had become urgent.

Read more at Current Archaeology
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/sands-of-time-domestic-rituals-at-the-links-of-noltland.htm

With thanks to Neolithic Britain blog for the link
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Third Neolithic Figurine found at the Links by Runemage on Tuesday, 04 September 2012
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All three figurines are now going on display in the Westray Heritage Centre.
Alasdair McVicar, Chair of the Westray Heritage Trust said:
“The discovery of these figurines has really put Westray and the Heritage Centre on the map. The figurines and the accompanying excellently preserved Neolithic bone and stone tools and cattle skulls on display in the Heritage Centre give an impressive insight into the ancestral past of the island.” http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2012/third-neolithic-figurine-found-in-westray-excavation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19397929
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Second figurine found on Westray, Orkney by Andy B on Saturday, 07 August 2010
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Figurine found on Orkney could shed new light on life in 2500BC

t may turn out to be nothing more than a discarded and forgotten children’s toy, but a prehistoric clay figurine could be one of the most important archaeological finds in Scotland for years.

A Neolithic figurine has been discovered on Westray, in the Orkney Islands, almost a year since the celebrated Orkney Venus was discovered on the same islands.

The Orkney Venus figurine is the earliest carving of a human figure found in Scotland.

The Wife of Westray, as it became known, measures just 3.5cm by 3cm and is the only known Neolithic carving of a human form to have been discovered in Scotland Historic Scotland said a second, headless figurine has been discovered by archaeologists at the Links of Noltland dig on Westray.

The new figure is the same size and shape as the original sandstone Venus figurine but is made of clay and is missing its head.

The new figurine was discovered by archaeologist Sean Rice.

More, with a photo of the little figure in the Herald
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/figurine-found-on-orkney-could-shed-new-light-on-life-in-2500bc-1.1042095

also a report in the Scotsman but no photo
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/A-second-Venus-found-in.6426346.jp
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Re: 5,000-year-old Westray wife tours Scotland by Lasya on Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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"Wife"? "Venus"? which millennium is this please?!
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    Re: 5,000-year-old Westray wife tours Scotland by Andy B on Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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    Yes, I don't know what tabloid journalist named her that but it's a new one on me.
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5,000-year-old Westray wife tours Scotland by Andy B on Monday, 15 March 2010
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A Neolithic carving found in the Orkney Islands last year is to go on tour around Scotland.

The 5,000-year-old figurine, now known as the Westray Wife, was discovered in the Links of Noltland on the Orkney island of Westray and is the only Neolithic carving of a human form found in Scotland.

Measuring just 41mm by 31mm and made of sandstone, the Venus figure will go on tour around Scotland before returning to Orkney for the summer.
a photograph of a stone carving

"This was a find of tremendous international as well as national importance, so it is fantastic that people have the opportunity to see the Venus first hand," said Minister for Culture and External Affairs Fiona Hyslop.

"By taking it on tour across Scotland we want to ensure that as many people as possible get to see the Orkney Venus and find out more about the vast amount of activity that is going on to protect and enhance our rich archaeological heritage."

For opening times and further information visit http://www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk/orkneyvenus or to see a sneak preview of the Venus check out http://www.youtube.com/historicscotlandtv

Source:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/archaeology/megaliths+and+prehistoric+archaeology/art76835
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Westray stone age carving is a first for Scotland by Andy B on Wednesday, 16 December 2009
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What has been hailed as Scotland’s earliest representation of a human has been unearthed in Westray.

When archaeologists, working at the Historic Scotland excavation at the Links of Noltland, brushed away the mud from a small piece of Neolithic carved sandstone, they saw a face staring back at them.

Following its discovery last week, the human figurine has been described as a “find of astonishing rarity”.

Measuring just 3.5cm by 3cm, it is the only known Neolithic carving of a human form to have been discovered in Scotland — with only two other examples in the whole of the British mainland.

More at Orkneyjar
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/noltlandfigure.htm
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Racing against time to save prehistoric Orkney treasures by Andy B on Saturday, 19 September 2009
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A desolate site is giving up its archaeological secrets – but the wind is tearing it apart

She may have been a deity, a fertility symbol, a shaman's prop or perhaps a votive offering. She is at least 5,000 years old, so no one really knows. But the discovery of the tiny sandstone figurine, buried in the rubble of a recently discovered neolithic house on Orkney, has electrified archaeologists.

She is of astonishing rarity and significance. Flat-faced and heavy-browed, with two rounded breasts carefully etched high on her chest, the diminutive figure is one of the oldest representations of a human yet found in Britain. Only two of similar antiquity have been unearthed, and its discovery has transformed the significance of a relatively little-known archaeological dig at the Links of Noltland on the island of Westray on the northern fringes of the Orkney islands.

This desolate site is emerging as one of the UK's most important prehistoric digs: over the last 30 years archaeologists have uncovered a complex of neolithic and bronze age houses, field systems, rich middens and possibly ceremonial buildings dating to 3,500BC.

Even before this prehistoric figure emerged, Noltland had revealed tantalising glimpses of this slowly evolving society: they kept red deer, primitive rough-haired sheep, pigs and cattle; harvested shellfish; planted wheat nourished with domestic waste and animal dung; used whalebone for rafters, tools and clothing pins; made beads; and embellished their tools with carvings and lumps of the ochre-coloured haematite imported from nearby Hoy.

Much of the site is contemporaneous with Orkney's most famous archaeological site, the neolithic village of Skara Brae on the west coast of its main island, which was laid bare, after more than 5,000 years of anonymity, by tremendous storms in 1850 and 1925.

And the wind here is another powerful parallel with Skara Brae. Over the last 30 years, the north Atlantic wind has remorselessly swept away thousands of tonnes of sand at Noltland, excavating dunes and finally exposing several thousand years of early human civilisation.But the wind now threatens to destroy the site, which sits just tens of metres from the surf. The gales are becoming more intense. It is a crisis increasingly common for coastline archaeological sites around Britain.

More, with photo of the little figure, in The Guardian
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    Re: Racing against time to save prehistoric Orkney treasures by howar on Thursday, 01 July 2010
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    This season's dig has begun and they now have 30 ox skulls in the foundations, for which they can find nothing similar in Scotland [though J.W. Cursiter mentions the 1901 uncovering by storm near Skara Brae of a 3' deep ox midden 100' long, beneath which another storm two years later disclosed a building set upon the rock].
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Re: Dig Opens at the Links of Noltland by Andy B on Wednesday, 30 July 2008
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Historic Scotland is arranging open days for the Sundays of August 31 and September 14, from noon to 4pm.

More at
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/noltland2008.htm
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Dig Opens at the Links of Noltland by Andy B on Wednesday, 30 July 2008
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Originally posted by coldrum:

Digging in to save site

A TEAM of archaeologists is involved in a race against time and the elements to research a Neolithic structure discovered last year at one of Orkney's most important sites.
Historic Scotland has funded extensive research-and-rescue excavations at the Links of Noltland, on Westray, where ancient structures are threatened by wind erosion of the sand dunes that protected them for thousands of years.

Eight weeks of excavation are due to start on 28 July, led by Graeme Wilson and Hazel Moore of EASE Archaeology.

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Digging-in-to-save-site.4309962.jp
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Archaeologists find mysterious Neolithic Structure in Orkney at Links of Noltland Dig by Andy B on Sunday, 23 December 2007
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The sands of time have been rapidly eroding at the Orkney Bronze Age site,
the Links of Noltland. Before everything is lost to the sea around the
island of Westray, Historic Scotland have been carrying out a thorough
excavation to learn everything they can.

The dig at the ancient dune-protected houses has now turned up an unexpected
and impressive discovery dating to Neolithic times, archaeologists have
announced following the conclusion of their work.

"A previously unknown Neolithic structure has been found that is very
different from anything else known to exist at this remarkable site,"
explained Peter Yeoman, Historic Scotland senior archaeologist.

"It was built using dressed stone and was clearly intended to look
impressive from the outside. This marks it out from houses of the time, the
exteriors of which tended to be created with function rather than looks in
mind."

"However there were some very special buildings, including certain tombs,
where a great deal of architectural skill went into their architecture."

The structure is about seven metres wide and even longer in length, but only
part of it has so far been exposed. Excavations in the 1980s initially
turned up a Neolithic building, but the nature of what was recently found
has surprised the contracted team from EASE Archaeology. Further work will
be carried out to discover more about what its function in the site might
have been.

Noltland is known to have been inhabited at several different times, and
finds including polished bone beads, tools and grooved-ware pottery
identified the large structure as about 4,000 years old. It is now being
backfilled to protect it from winter storms.

"This has been a highly successful programme of excavation and research,"
said Mr Yeoman. "We have been able to gather a great deal of information
about the Bronze Age houses that had been exposed by storms."

"At the same time we discovered even more about the Neolithic structure
excavated by Dr David Clarke and were delighted to find the measures taken
by Historic Scotland to protect it had worked very well and kept it in
excellent condition."

"We monitor the condition of this area very closely and will continue to do
all we can to keep it safe as it is of great archaeological importance."

Post-excavation work will now take place in order to get the fullest
understanding of information gathered during the project.

Links of Noltland lies behind Grobust Bay on the north coast of Westray. It
is an exceptionally important site, believed to be more extensive than Skara
Brae.

Photos at

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART52775.html
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Links of Noltland Open Days by Andy B on Monday, 29 October 2007
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After its Neolithic and Bronze Age inhabitants moved out, the prehistoric village of the Links of Noltland lay untouched until 1978, when the Orkney site was first excavated. The archaeological remains were then reburied under sand dunes, to be inhabited only by burrowing rabbits, their closest neighbours a colony of seals on the beach.

Now visitors are being invited to Noltland, on the island of Westray, to take a rare tour of the buildings, which have undergone an emergency excavation after being exposed by strong winds.

The open days, on the weekend of November 3 and 4 2007, will reveal a large, two-roomed subterranean building whose walls survives to head height, dating to Neolithic times, and the remains of later Bronze Age buildings currently being excavated to salvage important remnants.

“This is an extremely rare opportunity for people to view these unique Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement remains which are of the greatest importance to understanding this period of history in Orkney,” said Peter Yeoman, Senior Archaeologist at Historic Scotland.

More at the 24 Hour Museum
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51667.html
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