The Orkney News [Unofficial]Tales of True Crime, Orkney: Money Theft
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The Chris of MayThese days Scapa Flow is playing host to a floating oil storage platform. While I’d rather it wasn’t there, it does start to look impressive at night.
Walking along the clifftop path in a stiff breeze, we spent a while watching young Common Gulls (I think) try to land on a tricky spot on the cliff. They would repeatedly hang there on the wind for a few seconds, looking indecisive, then glide out and come back round a few seconds later for another go.
(Edit: fulmars! Thanks @MartinTaudio)
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Jeffery NichollsThe Neolithic Migration into Orkney
My best guess for how the Migration of people in Neolithic Britain accessed Orkney, how the land that they walked over was eroded away, and how some people remained on Orkney as castaways, building some of the most evocative structures in the Neolithic world.
#neolithic #prehistory #archaeology #Orkney #Scotland #Brodgar #skarabrae
https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/neolithic-migration-to-orkney.html
Flying the Flag for Orkney at VisitScotland Connect 2026
Everybody i talked to about this neolithic migration into Orkney from northern Scotland told me they had boats. That people 5000 yearsago could float across the Pentland Firth in sufficient numbers to build the Ring of Brodgar.
They gave no proof, no evidence, just the certainty that people living in the stone age had the ability to cross the English Channel and the Pentland Firth with sheep and dogs.
I didn't believe it.
#neolithic #prehistory #Orkney #archaeology
https://orkneyriddler.blogspot.com/2025/07/they-must-have-had-boats.html
