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  • Thumbnail for Heart of Neolithic Orkney
    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...
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    as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar, or Ring o' Brodgar) is a Neolithic henge and stone circle in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland...
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    complete Neolithic village. Skara Brae gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status as one of four sites making up "The Heart of Neolithic Orkney".a Older...
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    occupied by Mesolithic and Neolithic tribes and then by the Picts. Orkney was colonised and later annexed by the Kingdom of Norway in 875 and settled...
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    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 henge...
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    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...
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    societies in Orkney would have been considerable. The assemblage of monumental Neolithic structures in Orkney is without parallel in the United Kingdom, and the...
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    islands of Orkney that lies off the north coast of mainland Scotland. With an area of 50.43 km2 (19.5 sq mi), it is the third largest of the Orkney Islands...
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  • Orkney, in Scotland, in the United Kingdom. During its lifetime, the Society published 15 volumes of Proceedings, the last being in 1939. An Orkney Research...
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  • 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 1838...
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  • Thumbnail for Hoy, Orkney
    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...
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    Eday (redirect from Eday, Orkney)
    life in Orkney, but the later assemblage of houses and monumental Neolithic structures in the archipelago is without parallel in the United Kingdom. Vinquoy...
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    Planning Act (Scotland) 1947. Within the United Kingdom are the ruins of prehistoric structures and ancient neolithic settlements. The architecture of ancient...
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    prehistoric remains in Orkney, especially from the Neolithic period. Four of these remains comprise the Heart of Neolithic Orkney UNESCO World Heritage...
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    August 2009 Great Spas of Europe, UNESCO, retrieved 25 July 2021 Heart of Neolithic Orkney, UNESCO, retrieved 28 July 2009 Henderson Island, UNESCO, retrieved...
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    has taken place. New Lanark St Kilda Edinburgh Antonine Wall Heart of Neolithic Orkney Forth Bridge The six existing sites are mapped to the right and...
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  • Thumbnail for Tourism in the United Kingdom
    Devon Coast Durham Frontiers of the Roman Empire Giant's Causeway Heart of Neolithic Orkney Ironbridge Gorge New Lanark Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Pontcysyllte...
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  • UHI Archaeology Institute (category Education in Orkney)
    Archaeologists. Tourism is a key component of Orkney's economy, with 700,000 visiting the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site between 2014 and 2020...
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  • 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...
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    Papa Westray (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    (Scots: Papa Westree), also known as Papay, is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, United Kingdom. The fertile soil has long been a draw to the island....
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    Westray (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    2015. "Orkney Venus closes in on key prize 5,000 years after Neolithic creation". The Scotsman. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 16 June 2010. "Orkney Venus"....
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  • Thumbnail for Wyre, Orkney
    Wyre (historically known as Viera and Veira) is one of the Orkney Islands, lying south-east of Rousay. It is 311 hectares (1.20 sq mi) and 32 metres (105 ft)...
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    Rousay (redirect from Orkney Islands/Rousay)
    island about 3 km (1.9 mi) north of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It has been nicknamed "Egypt of the north", due to...
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    Pierowall (category Villages in Orkney)
    Pierowall is a village of Westray in the Orkney Islands, off the coast of the northern Scottish mainland. The village is the island's largest settlement...
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  • Thumbnail for Fara, Orkney
    Fara (/ˈfærə/, Old Norse: Færey ) is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying in Scapa Flow between the islands of Flotta and Hoy. It has been uninhabited...
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    Calf of Eday (category Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Orkney)
    uninhabited island in Orkney, Scotland, lying north east of Eday. It is known for its wildlife and its prehistoric ruins. There is a Neolithic chambered cairn...
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    South Ronaldsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    paler fur. The Orkney voles were introduced to the archipelago in Neolithic times. The oldest known radiocarbon-dated fossil of the Orkney vole is 4600...
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  • 2009 in Scotland (category 2009 in the United Kingdom)
    archaeologists announce that they have discovered a Neolithic temple in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site. 20 August – the Scottish justice...
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    excavation site in Wigtownshire Heart of Neolithic Orkney, the UNESCO World Heritage Site on the Mainland, one of the islands of Orkney, Scotland Stonehenge, Avebury...
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    North Ronaldsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    /ˈrɒnəldziː/, Scots: North Ronalshee) is the northernmost island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. With an area of 690 hectares (2.7 sq mi), it is...
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    Orkneyjar. Retrieved 13 July 2012. Fraser, David (1980) Investigations in Neolithic Orkney. Glasgow Archaeological Journal. 7 p. 13. ISSN 1471-5767 "Unstan Chambered...
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    Shetland (category Counties of the United Kingdom (1801–1922))
    archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about 80 km (50 mi)...
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    Shapinsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    human occupation since Neolithic times. According to Tacitus, the Roman general Agricola subdued the inhabitants of the Orkney Islands, and a local legend...
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  • 1999 in Scotland (category 1999 in the United Kingdom)
    of Scotland in Edinburgh officially opened. 2 December – the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' is designated as a World Heritage Site. The last Elder of the...
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    Graemsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    (/ˈɡreɪmziː/) is an island in the western approaches to Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. The island has two lighthouses. Graemsay lies within...
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    Muckle Green Holm is an uninhabited island in the North Isles of the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. It is roughly 28 hectares (0.11 sq mi) in extent and...
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    well-preserved village of Skara Brae on the mainland of Orkney dates from this period. Neolithic habitation, burial, and ritual sites are particularly common...
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    Devon Coast Durham Frontiers of the Roman Empire Giant's Causeway Heart of Neolithic Orkney Ironbridge Gorge New Lanark Old and New Towns of Edinburgh Pontcysyllte...
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  • scheduled monuments dating back to Neolithic times. Rudston is the centre of a prehistoric landscape and four Neolithic cursus converge on the village area...
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    Council local authority. They have been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times and experienced Norse rule for several centuries, the first written...
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    the most northern station in the United Kingdom. The nearby port of Scrabster provides ferry services to the Orkney Islands; the NorthLink ferry (MV Hamnavoe)...
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  • This article lists the oldest extant freestanding buildings in the United Kingdom. In order to qualify for the list a structure must: be a recognisable...
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    of Orkney). The entire archipelago lies off the northernmost coast of Scotland, in the North Sea. As the most remote inhabited island in the United Kingdom...
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    Stronsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    Stronsay (/ˈstrɒnziː/) is an island in Orkney, Scotland. It is known as Orkney's 'Island of Bays', owing to an irregular shape with miles of coastline...
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    Flotta (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    in Orkney, Scotland, lying in Scapa Flow. The island is known for its large oil terminal and is linked by Orkney Ferries to Houton on the Orkney Mainland...
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    Scotland. However, in general the Neolithic sites in the Inner Hebrides lack the scale and drama of those found in Orkney and the Western Isles. There are...
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    South Walls (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    South Walls is a tidal island or peninsula at the southern end of Hoy in Orkney, Scotland. It is connected to the main body of Hoy, and to the district...
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  • saint, Saint Ninian of Galloway, who is also widely venerated on the nearby Orkney Islands, and may be commemorated in the name of North Ronaldsay. In 1958...
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  • Burray (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    Burray (/ˈbʌriː/) is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland. It lies to the east of Scapa Flow and is one of a chain of islands linked by the Churchill...
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    List of islands of Scotland (category Lists of islands of the United Kingdom)
    offshore islands, most of which are to be found in four main groups: Shetland, Orkney, and the Hebrides, sub-divided into the Inner Hebrides and Outer Hebrides...
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    ISBN 978-0-19-931362-4. ...not all shortbread is made with white flour. On Orkney, where a tasty Neolithic barley known as "bere" is still grown and milled, bakers add...
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    Gairsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    Gairsay (Old Norse: Gáreksey) is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, located in the parish of Rendall, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) off the coast, astride one of...
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  • Bridge Glamis Castle University of Glasgow Glenfinnan Viaduct Heart of Neolithic Orkney Holmwood House Inverness Castle Kessock Bridge The Lighthouse...
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    Inner Holm (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    of the Orkney islands of Scotland. It is about 350 metres (1,150 ft) east of the harbour front of Stromness but it is connected to the Orkney Mainland...
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    inhabited and few of them ever were, although Hirta was occupied from the Neolithic age until 1930 and Stroma was permanently occupied until the 1970s and...
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    Egilsay (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    Egilsay (/ˈɛɡɪlsiː/, Scots: Egilsay) is one of the Orkney Islands in Scotland, lying east of Rousay. The anglicized name of Eagleshay was used in past...
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  • the island are a Special Area of Conservation. The island has several Neolithic burial chamber sites, as well as the remains of Duke Hakon's 13th-century...
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  • the original on 22 November 2011. Retrieved 7 November 2011. "Heart of Neolithic Orkney". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 9 September 2019. Retrieved...
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    Holm of Grimbister (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
    inhabited tidal islet in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. Located in the Bay of Firth near Finstown it is connected to Mainland Orkney by a causeway. Bay of...
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  • Alasdair Whittle (born 1949) British; European Neolithic Caroline Wickham-Jones (1955–2022) British; Orkney, mesolithic, submerged sites Theodor Wiegand...
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    infant James VI was anointed King of Scots by Adam Bothwell, the Bishop of Orkney, with the service concluding after a sermon by John Knox. The poet King...
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    History of Scotland (category History of the United Kingdom by topic)
    Scotland entered the Neolithic Era about 4000 BC, the Bronze Age about 2000 BC, and the Iron Age around 700 BC. The Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata was founded...
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  • Yell, Shetland (category 1881 disasters in the United Kingdom)
    average depth of 1.5 metres (4.9 feet). Yell has been inhabited since the Neolithic times, and a dozen broch sites have been identified from the pre-Norse...
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    scraper found at Toaluinn on Muck indicates possible occupation in the Neolithic Era. This appears to have continued into the Bronze Age, if a dagger found...
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    History of England (category History of the United Kingdom by topic)
    Glacial Period. The region has numerous remains from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age, such as Stonehenge and Avebury. In the Iron Age, all of...
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    to the beach airport and Eoligarry. Human presence on Barra since the Neolithic era was established by the discovery of a near-complete pottery beaker...
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    post-Neolithic Bronze Age Harappan civilization 5,700–3,300 years ago. Barley beer was probably one of the first alcoholic drinks developed by Neolithic humans;...
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    island" which name may indicate it was the 11th century base for Earl of Orkney Brusi Sigurdsson. This possibility is supported by a later reference to...
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    "geologist's paradise". Arran has been continuously inhabited since the early Neolithic period. Numerous prehistoric remains have been found. From the 6th century...
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    Vatersay. The offshore islet of Bioruaslum has a walled fort that may be of Neolithic provenance. At the end of the nineteenth century, the existing landowner...
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    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 c. 300...
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    to King Bridei I of the Picts in the sixth century AD: "As for Shetland, Orkney, Skye and the Western Isles, their inhabitants, most of whom appear to have...
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    the Wayback Machine Staffin Community Trust. Retrieved 12 February 2011. Orkney placenames. Orkneyjar. Retrieved 12 February 2011. Rick Livingstone’s Tables...
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    and there are many monuments which show prehistoric man's presence. A Neolithic burial cairn and some evidence of Bronze Age occupation were found here...
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    Canongate. ISBN 978-1-84195-454-7. Gammeltoft, Peder (2010) "Shetland and Orkney Island-Names – A Dynamic Group". Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected...
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    which took place on Culloden Moor. It is the northernmost city in the United Kingdom and lies within the Great Glen (Gleann Mòr) at its northeastern extremity...
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    edge used for cutting. This neolithic tool is named after Skaill Bay, the location of World Heritage Site Skara Brae in Orkney. Monro (1549) "Hirta" No....
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  • List of lochs of Scotland (category Lists of lakes of the United Kingdom)
    in the Northern Isles, e.g. Roer Water in Shetland and Heldale Water in Orkney. These are not to be confused with similarly named rivers, particularly...
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    Project, which includes partners from Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland, Highland Scotland and the Isle of Man, aims to explore and promote...
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    Finnish sauna organizations, infrared is not a sauna. Areas such as the rocky Orkney islands of Scotland have many ancient stone structures for normal habitation...
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    Vementry (category Neolithic Scotland)
    for its well-preserved chambered cairn. The well-preserved remains of a Neolithic heel-shaped cairn about 10 metres (33 feet) in diameter and rising to...
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    hamlets and a scattering of individual croft houses. It is known for its Neolithic remains including a burnt mound, and for sea caves. The roofless, plain...
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    five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the population of the entire island is just over 7 million...
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    etymology of Uist from Old Norse, meaning "west", much like Westray in Orkney. Another speculated derivation of Uist from Old Norse is Ívist, derived...
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    Levant (Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) and from there spread eastwards and westwards. There are early Neolithic cultures in Southeast...
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    (possibly druids), such as Loch nan Druidhneach. Such names often refer to neolithic remains. Other historical references occur in the island's names, such...
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    South Uist was clearly home to a thriving Neolithic community. The island is covered in several neolithic remains, such as burial cairns, and a small...
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    unknown reasons. There is comparatively little evidence for life during the Neolithic and Bronze Ages although a picture emerges of "small farming communities...
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    drinking water and to treat wastewater have been improved. During the Neolithic era, humans dug the first permanent water wells, from where vessels could...
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    (/ˈfuːlə/), located in the Shetland archipelago of Scotland, is one of the United Kingdom's most remote permanently inhabited islands. Owned since the turn of...
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    New Lanark (category Textile museums in the United Kingdom)
    Heritage Sites, the others being Edinburgh Old and New Towns, Heart of Neolithic Orkney, St Kilda, the Antonine Wall and the Forth Bridge. The mills and...
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    volunteer lifeboat rescuers for the Scottish seaside village of Longhope in the Orkney Islands were killed while responding to a distress call during a Force 9...
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    Chief Whip, was born on Islay to hill-farming parents. He has represented Orkney and Shetland at Westminster since 2001. Donald Caskie (1902–1983) was born...
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  • (1990 reprint) ISBN 0-901824-25-9 Gammeltoft, Peder (2010) "Shetland and Orkney Island-Names – A Dynamic Group" Northern Lights, Northern Words Selected...
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    to Pentland Utd 2–1 in the 4th. Attractions on the island include the Neolithic ruin of Benie Hoose and the settlement of Sudheim where Hugh MacDiarmid...
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    Benbecula (category Military training areas in the United Kingdom)
    Eilean na Cille and Triallabreac. A number of standing stones from the Neolithic period are scattered throughout the island, including the remains of a...
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    islands listed here would have been inhabited at some point during the Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic or Norse periods. In common with the other main...
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  • as Bute (/bjuːt/), is an island in the Firth of Clyde in Scotland, United Kingdom. It is divided into highland and lowland areas by the Highland Boundary...
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  • 75 million The island has been inhabited for thousands of years, and Neolithic and Bronze Age remains have been found there. Other remains on the island...
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    received. This is an architecturally outstanding Neolithic chambered tomb on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland—probably dating to the early 3rd millennium...
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    The 'Research Project of the Year' category included a project in the Orkney for the second year running: other nominees in this category included 'Massacre...
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    structures in Shetland suggest a neolithic date. The island also appears to have been occupied towards the end of the neolithic era, and start of the Bronze...
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    sheep group of breeds. It is one of the rarest breeds of sheep in the United Kingdom. The breed is classed as "Category 3: Vulnerable" by the Rare Breeds...
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    Shuna, Slate Islands (category Private islands of the United Kingdom)
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shuna, Slate Islands. Portals:  United Kingdom  Scotland 56°12′44″N 5°36′42″W / 56.21222°N 5.61167°W / 56.21222;...
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    exploration in 1975. Worked flints from the Mesolithic and scrapers from the Neolithic were uncovered as part of the Priory excavations carried out between 1977...
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    Rùm (category Neolithic Scotland)
    woodland for agricultural purposes) was taking place in 3470 BC (the early Neolithic era); much later, from 2460 BC, evidence of arable cultivation exists...
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    Jämtland (category Kingdom of Norway (872–1397))
    Norway and had the same status in the Kingdom of Norway (872–1397) as the Atlantic isles like Shetland and Orkney, even though Jämtland was connected by...
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  • ship encounters en route to Shetland from Bergen. There is evidence of Neolithic inhabitation including two house sites at Queyness. The Battle Pund is...
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    Argentina (category Member states of the United Nations)
    from the Paleolithic period, with further traces in the Mesolithic and Neolithic. Until the period of European colonization, Argentina was relatively sparsely...
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    with numerous pottery sherds evidencing the island's occupation in the Neolithic era, along with a small number of mysterious cellars dug into the ground...
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    uncovered by the English archaeologist John Mercer in the 1960s. There is a Neolithic chambered cairn at Poll a' Cheo in the southwest of the island. Jura is...
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    (Sloping Ground) In the early Historic Period Iona lay within the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata, in the region controlled by the Cenél Loairn (i.e. Lorn,...
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    during the late spring and early summer compared to the average for the United Kingdom. Tiree is a popular windsurfing venue; it is sometimes referred to as...
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  • lie "in the cockpit" of this territory. In the modern day, it is at the heart of the Lynn of Lorn National Scenic Area, one of forty such areas in Scotland...
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    replacement by the Norse Kingdom of the Isles, which became part of the kingdom of Norway following Norwegian unification around 872. The Kingdom of the Isles was...
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    British Museum (category Asian art museums in the United Kingdom)
    England, (3807/6 BC) Small collection of Neolithic finds including a necklace of flat bone beads from Skara Brae, Orkneys, northern Scotland, (3180–2500 BC)...
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    years, becoming part of the Kingdom of the Isles under Norwegian dominion, then the MacDougall subdivision of that kingdom after Somerled. Coll, like other...
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    early part of the Christian era Luing would have formed part of the Gaelic kingdom of Dalriada. From the 9th to 13th centuries almost all of the Hebrides...
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    the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2011. "Soay/United Kingdom". Breed Data Sheet. Domestic Animal Diversity Information System. Archived...
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    Ulva (category Columnar basalts of the United Kingdom)
    has been populated since the Mesolithic period, and there are various Neolithic remains on the island. The Norse occupation of the island in the Early...
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    May Craig Portlethen Village Gazetteer for Scotland: Craigmaroinn United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map Landranger 45, Stonehaven and Banchory, 1:50,000...
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  • the many features they named. Acknowledged by Malcolm III as part of the Kingdom of the Isles, a Norwegian crown dependency, from the 12th century onwards...
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    grandson owner". Daily Mirror. Retrieved 22 February 2023. "Hebrides (United Kingdom)". Flags of the World. Retrieved 28 April 2024. "Great Bernera, 'Tursachan'...
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    islands listed here would have been inhabited at some point during the Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Historic or Norse periods. In common with the other main...
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    Isle of Skye (category Islands of the United Kingdom)
    of the Cuillin, has a variety of archaeological sites dating from the Neolithic onwards. A second- or third-millennium BC chambered cairn, an Iron Age...
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    Hirta (category Neolithic Scotland)
    original on 11 March 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2013. "World Heritage: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". UNESCO. Retrieved 3 January...
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    Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 26 August 2012. Walker, Alex (Ed). (1994). The Kingdom Within: A Guide to the Spiritual Work of the Findhorn Community. Findhorn...
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    island's name are unclear and probably pre-Gaelic. It was a part of the kingdom of Dalriada in the 7th century but by the 16th century, Seil seemed to...
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  • for the Norse settlers during their conquest in the early years of the Kingdom of the Isles, which lasted from the 9th to the 13th centuries. There are...
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  • presence of the Prince of Wales, Queen Mary of Teck, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Ramsay MacDonald, Macleod of Macleod and Cameron of Lochiel. The funds...
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  • issue. 1914 peace commemoratives: In 1914, the United Kingdom, the Dominion of Canada and the United States agreed on a plan by which each of the three...
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  • National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland. The island became part of the Kingdom of the Isles, during the Norse era. Whereas nearby Ulva and Staffa belonged...
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    Staffa (category Columnar basalts of the United Kingdom)
    rake for folk-songs, an ear for the lovely, fragrant countryside, and a heart for the bare legs of the natives." Little is known of the early history...
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    them. Whale bones were used for many purposes. In the Neolithic settlement of Skara Brae on Orkney sauce pans were made from whale vertebrae. The whale...
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  • List of museums in Scotland (category Lists of museums in the United Kingdom)
    Library, both in printed and computer format.", accessed 15 June 2010 "'Heavy hearts' as Maritime Heritage Centre closes". January 19, 2010. Buchan Observer...
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    called the Suðreyjar in the eighth century, Raasay became part of the Norse Kingdom of the Isles and for much of the period religious observance came under...
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    Wayback Machine Barrow, G.W.S., "The Judex", in G.W.S. Barrow (ed.), The Kingdom of the Scots, (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 57–67 Lawrie, Sir Archibald, Early...
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    since prehistoric times. It may have had an important role during the Kingdom of Dalriada and is the ancestral home of Clan MacNeill. It fell under the...
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    George Lansbury (category Leaders of the Opposition (United Kingdom))
    Lansbury at IMDb Portals:  Biography  Politics  Christianity  Socialism  United Kingdom George Lansbury at Wikipedia's sister projects: Media from Commons Quotations...
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  • ongoing consolidation of Scottish royal power in the western fringes of the kingdom in the years following the Treaty of Perth. The earliest phase of construction...
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    Reindeer (category Mammals of the United States)
    Scotland until the 12th century, when the last reindeer were hunted in Orkney. During the Late Pleistocene Epoch, reindeer occurred further south in North...
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    August 2007). "Holocene tsunamis from Mount Etna and the fate of Israeli Neolithic communities". Geophysical Research Letters. 34 (16). AGU. Bibcode:2007GeoRL...
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  • first inscription.[citation needed] 12 sites (8 cultural, 4 natural) Host:  United States 45 sites (34 cultural, 8 natural, 3 mixed) Host:  Egypt 27 sites...
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    32 — Yandex.Maps". yandex.com. Retrieved 2017-04-10. "Stradivarius United Kingdom – Store search". stradivarius.com. Retrieved 2017-04-10. Zara.com. "Butiker...
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    Isle of Ewe (category Private islands of the United Kingdom)
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    King's Inch (category River navigations in the United Kingdom)
    acted act as a buffer to protect David I's interests in this part of his kingdom. Somerled of the Isles and Fergus of Galloway had made an alliance in the...
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    Town Forth Bridge Frontiers of the Roman Empire Antonine Wall Heart of Neolithic Orkney New Lanark St Kilda Wales Blaenavon Industrial Landscape Castles...
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    Little Cumbrae (category Private islands of the United Kingdom)
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  • Eriska (category Private islands of the United Kingdom)
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