Howastedgarth – the old name for the Ring of Brodgar?
We finished last week with George Marwick’s claimed “old name” for the Ring of Brodgar – Howastedgarth. I first stumbled across it in 2012, in a transcription of a talk given by Marwick …
In the late 19th century, the Knowe of Onston was opened and found to contain the remains of a Neolithic stalled cairn …
The second stone circle in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage site is now most commonly known as the Stones of Stenness …
The Stones of Stenness – part two
In December 1814, disaster struck the Stones of Stenness when a tenant farmer took it upon himself to obliterate them …
Probably the best-known Neolithic chambered cairn in Orkney, Maeshowe stands less than a mile to the east of the Ness of Brodgar complex …
The solstice, an earlier building and standing stone and Norse runes …
Back in 2016, a nineteenth century sketch had us pondering whether there might be more to Maeshowe than we see today …
In December 1984, evidence of a Neolithic village was found 150 metres (164 yards) to the north of the Stones of Stenness, at the southern end of the Harray loch …
For three centuries the Barnhouse settlement was dominated by a structure unlike any of the others in the village. Labelled House Two, it was also unique among Neolithic buildings in Orkney until the Ness of …
Around 3000BC, some 200 years after the founding of the Barnhouse settlement, a “building of monumental proportions” was erected on the site of a meeting area on the village outskirts …
