After spending some time in the Ring of Brodgar, I continued along the road further down south, crossing the Churchill barriers until I arrived at Saint Margaret’s Hope on the island of South Ronaldsay. St. Margarets Hope is the third largest settlement in Orkney and it is a lovely little town down in the south. […]
The Ring of Brodgar is one of the biggest stone circles in the UK – it is only one of two in the Ness of Brodgar, the heart of the Neolithic Orkney. The 27 remaining stones have a height between 2 metres to almost 5 metres and form a circle with a diameter of 103.6m. […]
It was the owner of Skaill House, William Watt, the Laird of Breckness, who discovered Skara Brae in 1850 after a big storm. Watt was an ambitious hobby archaeologist and started the excavation of the Neolithic settlement. He unearthed four of the buildings. After visiting Skara Brae I also did a walk around Skaill House, […]