Watch Stone provides vertical element and Stones of Stenness henge the horizontal
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Ring of Brodgar seen from northen edge of Barnhouse site
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August 3rd view of Kockna-cumming area from Barnhouse settlement ; one of the Brodgar standing stone pair at extreme left (the Lesser Wall of Brodgar would have been marked by them), new excavation area of mound behind spoil heap centre left, old excavation scar beneath white vehicles, main Ness of Brodgar excavation behind houses
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view west across ring showing the four pseudo-cardinal cairns – Salt and South Knowes at back, Fresh Knowe and Plumcake Mound at front
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Wall and rise (? 2nd tumulus) seen from road by West Bain
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northern end of Knowes of Trotty cemetery seen from farmroad to Winksetter
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excavated Knowes of Trotty seen from Winksetter farmroad
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Knowe of Midgarth seen from Woodwick
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broch mound looking across to Toy Ness
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looking across Scapa Flow
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broch occupied part of a larger mound
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seen from Point of Snusan
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Stones of Stenness on a gloriously sunny day
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Salt Knowe has an amazingly flat top as if something has been carved off the top
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Wasbister Disc Barrow and end of Dyke of Se(e)an as seen from top of Salt Knowe
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Plumcake Mound from the giddy heights of Fresh Knowe, with The Brecks cairns on top of hill left background
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Fresh Knowe looking to Bigswell, the southernmost element of the mediaeval Brodgar ‘experience’ (the other end being the Ring of Bookan)
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eastern side of Fresh Knowe showing excavation hump etc
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Fresh Knowe from south with Ring of Brodgar in left distance
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Fresh Knowe and Plumcake Mound with Bookan Tomb on hill behind
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Salt Knowe, South Knowe, Brodgar cairns, Ring of Brodgar, Comet Stone. In this view the backdrop is not the Black Hill of Warbuster but Linga Fiold (with the Lyking mounds facing us).
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Burgar cairn with circle of Castle partially glimpsed lower left
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cairn (L) and broch (R) despite disparity in size both called broughs on first O.S. 25”
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runic sentence stone with foot of Black Hill of Warbuster behind
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sentence in runes on Ring of Brodgar stone honeyed by summer sun- why this stone, do the runes use earlier symbols like we graffiti wall posters etc ???
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pair of stones with The Brecks atop Black Hill of Warbuster in the distance
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