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Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Ring of Brodgar submitted by Dodomad on 12th Apr 2025. Back in 2022, historian Tristan Hughes visited Orkney to film part of the Mysteries of Prehistoric Scotland. Although the three programmes were initially for History Hit TV subscribers, the full series can now be viewed by all as a single, two-hour long documentary.
In it we hear from, among others, Professor Jane Downes, the director of the UHI Institute, at the Ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae; Dr Antonia Thomas at the Unstan stalled cairn; Nick Card at the Ness of Brodgar; Roy Towers on Gr...
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Comet Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Comet Stone (Orkney) submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Comet Stone HY296132 standing 137mtrs SE from the Ring of Brodgar.
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Unstan
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
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Skara Brae
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 28th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Skara Brae submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. Looking out over Bay of Skaill.
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Gurness
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 29th Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 5
Gurness submitted by PAB on 11th Jan 2021. 4.45am, the beautiful glow lighting up the stones. Worth getting up for such an experience, only an hour's sleep lost, and so much gained!
June 2016
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Taversoe Tuick
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Taversoe Tuick submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 426276
On Rousay this is a two-storied stalled cairn, one of only two known. The round cairn is about 30' in diameter. The lower chamber, reached by a 19' passage, is about 12' long x 5' wide x 5' high, and is divided into 4 cells by upright slabs. The upper chamber, whose floor is the celing of the lower chamber, is reached by an 11' long passage, and is divided into 2 compartments. The cairn is built on a hill so each passage is at ground level, one on the uphill side, the other on the dow...
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Blackhammer
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 5
Blackhammer submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Blackhammer Chambered Cairn HY415276. Ancient cairn entombed in a modern bunker.
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Knowe of Yarso
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 3
Knowe of Yarso submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 404281
On Rousay. A neolithic stalled cairn about 50' long x 25' wide entered by a 13' long passage at the eastern end. The chamber (which my have originally been two-storied) is divided into 4 compartments by 3 pairs of upright slabs.
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Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 3 Access 4
Midhowe Chambered Cairn submitted by SandyG on 30th Sep 2015. Looking north along the chamber. (3rd June 2015).
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Midhowe Broch
Date Added: 3rd Aug 2025
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 31st Jul 2025. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Midhowe Broch submitted by SandyG on 20th Sep 2015. Broch interior looking towards the entrance showing internal compartments denoted by large slabs. (3rd June 2015).
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