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Sunday / Day 1 - Monday 5th July Ferry Scrabster-Stromness / West Mainland : Stenness Stones, Barnhouse settlement (no pics), Ring of Brodgar (plus the Comet Stone, Watchstone, Barnhouse Stone - no pics of the latter), Maeshowe (no pics), Unstan Chambered Cairn, Scara Brae, Brough of Birsay, Gurness Broch,... |
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6th July East Mainland : Kirkwall (no pics), Grain Earth House, Minehowe (no pics), Deerness - Brough of Deerness & Mull Head LNR, Italian Chapel (no pics), back to Stromness to deliver the car, and the bus back to Kirkwall for the 23.45 ferry to Shetland! |
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Interesting archaeological etc. websites :
Superb site about Orkney History : Orkneyjar
- The Heritage of the Orkney Islands
Your beacon of stone-exhaustiveness : The
Megalithic Portal; but also
check
out
The Modern Antiquarian, a megalith-site based on the book by Julian Cope!
Orkney
@ Undiscovered Scotland
Orkney
@ Ancient Scotland
Orkney
@ Ancient Sites Directory
Orkney
@ Megalithic Mysteries
some various stuff on Stones
of Scotland
Of course, history isn't all that counts, so -
nature stuff on Scottish
Natural Heritage,
or on Scottish National
Nature Reserves
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