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A flint arrowhead found at the Nieuwigein dig.
Image credit: Gemeente Nieuwegein
The excavation site where the 1st and 2nd skeletons were found.
Image credit: Gemeente Nieuwegein
Discovery of the 1st skeleton (December 12, 2016). The two leg bones are exposed in the foreground.
Image credit: Gemeente Nieuwegein
Excavation reveals the skull of the 1st skeleton (December 24, 2016).
Image credit: Gemeente Nieuwegein
Preparing the 1st skeleton for uplift to Leiden on December 29, 2016.
Image credit: RAAP Erfgoed
The 2nd skeleton, surrounded by a coccoon of clay, is uplifted from the site.
Image credit: RAAP Erfgoed
The skull of the 3rd skeleton pokes out from the clay.
Image credit: Gemeente Nieuwegein
Archaeologists at work excavating the 3rd Skeleton.
Image credit: William Hoogteyling
The newly revealed skeleton silhouette beneath the Paardenmarkt in Alkmaar.
Image credit: Radio & Televisie Noord-Holland
The prehistoric grave unearthed during construction work at the Paardenmarkt in Alkmaar.
Image credit: Radio & Televisie Noord-Holland
The silhouette of the burial beneath the Paardenmarkt in Alkmaar
Image credit: Gemeente Alkmaar
The low mound, photographed from near ground level.
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A probable cairn amongst the forest debris. Several earthfast stones on the southern perimeter could be remnants of a kerb.
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Duntulm Castle, photographed in 1988, at which time there was free access to explore the ruin. Since the tower collapsed two years later, entry has been forbidden on safety grounds.
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This was the impressive tower of Duntulm Castle in 1988, two years before it toppled.
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Hunebed D29 Buinen, with hunebed D28 just 37 metres north of it.
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Hunebed D29 has two remarkably flat capstones that may have been fashioned from a single boulder.
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This telephoto image of Dun Ardtrek taken from Oronsay shows the broch atop its clifftop knoll. No need of fortification from its seaward side, then!
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Some of the massive blocks comprising the southern defences of Dùn Gerashader. All must be at least a metre and a half in height.
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Tumbled masonry in Dùn Gerashader’s northern wall.
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Illustrating the thickness of the northern wall at Dùn Gerashader.
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The grassy, boulder-strewn interior of the fort.
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Some stretches of original walling courses are still visible.
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One of several stretches of extant walling courses.
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Panorama across the interior of Dùn Gerashader, looking north.
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The north wall, looking towards the Storr.
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The vertical prow that supports Dun Grianan.
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The northwest slopes of Dun Grianan, showing scattering of facing stones.
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Looking south over the narrow interior of Dun Grianan. The Old Man of Storr can be seen in the background.
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The well defined entranceway to Dun Grianan.
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Cliffs at the northern end of Dun Grianan. Rudimentary walling remains on the slopes.
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This mass of tumbled masonry on the landward flank of Dun Kraiknish can only suggest the original height of its defensive wall.
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The entranceway into Dun Kraiknish shows as a distinct dip on the skyline.
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The dun is defended by undercut cliffs around its seaward approaches.
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The partially collapsed entrance passage at Dun Kraiknish.
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