Orkneyöarna

Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. …

Historic Scotland's official souvenir guide for the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney, packed with research, photographs and illustrations.

Monuments of Neolithic Orkney. This book looks at archaeological remains as architecture with inherent meaning.

First published in 1973 by the Hogarth Press, Magnus is George Mackay Brown’s tour de force – his most poetic and innovative book. He links the twelfth-century story of the saintly …

A compact history charting the development of this natural harbor in the Orkney Islands, Britain's most important naval base during World Wars I and II.In 1914 and again in 1939, …

The chambered tomb of Maeshowe sits in one of the richest and best preserved Neolithic landscapes in Europe. This was a place of stone circles, villages and burial monuments; a …

The two island groups of Orkney and Shetland have much in common. In each the grey stone houses and treeless landscapes are scoured in winter by stinging gales, and in summer lie …

For almost a century the islands of Orkney and Shetland were under the rule of the Stewart earls, father and son, a rule remarkable for its infamous reputation in island history. …

The archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - …