Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a group of Neolithic monuments on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The name was adopted by UNESCO when it proclaimed...

complete Neolithic village. Skara Brae gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status as one of four sites making up "The Heart of Neolithic Orkney". Older than...

largest island in Orkney, Scotland. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar...

is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC. In the archaeology of Scotland...

The Standing Stones of Stenness is a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest...

and the Stones of Stenness in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site on the main Island of Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated from 2003...

of the Scots language and have a rich body of folklore. Orkney contains some of the oldest and best-preserved Neolithic sites in Europe; the "Heart of...

start of Scotland's Early Historic Period (around AD 600). There are numerous important prehistoric remains in Orkney, especially from the Neolithic period...

continuously inhabited for thousands of years, as evidenced by the World Heritage Site of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The archipelago is exposed to wind...

prehistoric remains in Orkney, especially from the Neolithic period. Four of these remains comprise the Heart of Neolithic Orkney UNESCO World Heritage...

artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh on the obverse and images of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney on the reverse. Clydesdale Bank began issuing £100 notes in...

main island of Orkney, Scotland. Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air...

The Neolithic Barnhouse Settlement is sited by the shore of Loch of Harray, Orkney Mainland, Scotland, not far from the Standing Stones of Stenness, about...

Islands. Edinburgh: Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7. Thomson, William P. L. (2008) The New History of Orkney. Edinburgh. Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-84158-696-0...

structures that survive in the Orkney islands of Scotland, some of the best known of which are part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. The...

Oldest buildings in Scotland Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site Prehistoric Orkney Severn-Cotswold tomb, a type of chambered long barrow found...

Town The Heart of Neolithic Orkney New Lanark The Antonine Wall The Forth Bridge The Flow Country St. Kilda is a small, out-lying archipelago of Hebridean...

and Eileach an Naoimh. Part of the Argyll and Bute council area, they lie in Firth of Lorne west of Lunga and northwest of Scarba and have been uninhabited...

UNESCO, retrieved 12 August 2009 Great Spas of Europe, UNESCO, retrieved 25 July 2021 Heart of Neolithic Orkney, UNESCO, retrieved 28 July 2009 Henderson...

Scots: Sandee) is one of the inhabited islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 50.43 km2 (19.5 sq mi),...

the Romans across what is now the Central Belt of Scotland, between the Firth of Clyde and the Firth of Forth. Built some twenty years after Hadrian's...

of the Roman Empire Giant's Causeway Heart of Neolithic Orkney Ironbridge Gorge New Lanark Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Pontcysyllte St Kilda Saltaire...

Hoy (from Old Norse Háey, meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring 143 square kilometres (55 sq mi) – the second largest in the...

Examples of such ritual landscapes are: Balfarg in Fife, Scotland Dunragit archaeological excavation site in Wigtownshire Heart of Neolithic Orkney, the UNESCO...

many monuments which show prehistoric man's presence. A Neolithic burial cairn and some evidence of Bronze Age occupation were found here. The Callanish...

and Vidlin List of islands of Scotland List of islands of the British Isles Mainland, Orkney Haswell-Smith (2004) p. 406 Area and population ranks: there...

are typically abundant. The Ring of Brodgar, part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, as the World Heritage Site on Orkney, Scotland is called, is the other...

Isles" of Orkney and Shetland. South of Ardnamurchan, Gaelic place names are more common, and after the 13th century, Gaelic became the main language of the...

coast of Norway. The islands all fall within the Shetland Islands Council local authority. They have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times...

formed for the 1987 UK general election Heart of Neolithic Orkney, a World Heritage Site on Mainland Orkney This disambiguation page lists articles about...