House 2 in early December with Structure 8 behind
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House 2 in early December
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House 2 in early December
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Standing Stones of Stenness on a bleak December day
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alighting at the Skara Brae car park delighted to see Rossel Howe on the horizon, surely meant though it does look down on the rest of the land thereabouts too
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ditch with Plumcake-shaped Mound as one of the quarter mounds, taken from an entrance causeway looking in opposite direction to Salt Knowe view
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ditch with Salt Knowe as one of the quarter mounds, taken from an entrance causeway
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ditch with Fresh Knowe as one of the quarter mounds
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ditch with South Knowe as one of the quarter mounds
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bright summer’s day makes field across the loch from Fresh Knowe a seeming fit
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Comet Stone with Fresh Knowe over the road
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the only visible stonework on the seaward side is by the broch tower
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exterior view of stonework
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the burn encircles the mound, the result of course changes or man’s alteration
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(East) Broch of Burgar seen from Burgar Hill above. The fierce Burgar röst argues against defence from those on Rousay, and there is another tidal race between Eynhallow and ‘opposing’ Rousay
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as seen from up on Burgar Hill what we now call the Broch of Gurness was compltely covered by the Knowe of Aikerness
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Structure 8
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Structure 8 diagonal view
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Structure 8 grand ‘hearth’ entrance
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Structure 8 hearth ‘entrance‘
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Structure 8 hearth ‘entrance’ looking out
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Structure 8 entrance and intermediary space
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House 2 with exterior walls
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House 2 with Structure 8 behind
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House 2 diagonal view
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House 2 view along entrance to back
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looking into House 3
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House 3 looking front to back
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House 3 entrance at left. Watchstone by red roofed house in background and Brodgar Standing Stone Pair at far right behind marking Lesser Wall of Brodgar
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House 3 looking over to Firth, House 6 upper right
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Barnhouse Neolithic Settlement looking southwards
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Houses 2 and 3
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House 2 and Structure 8
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House 3 with House 6 behind
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House 6 with houses 2 & 3 behind, in the background Stones of Stenness at left and Watch Stone to left of Odin Cottage
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Maes Howe seen in distant sun from the bird hut near the Barnhouse settlement
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