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 Post subject: Skara Brae, Orkney
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Our prehistoric ancestors were a well travelled lot. 5000 years ago (give or take a hundred years or so), they built this village on Orkney Mainland (bit of a misnomer as it's actually an island!). Many years later, they abandoned it (we don't know why) and the sand swept over it, leaving it buried and preserved until the mid 19th century when, one night, a massive storm revealed it. It's incredibly well preserved and, looking down into each of the interlinked dwellings, you can really imagine the lives of the people who lived out their lives in this remote part of the British Isles.

It draws me back time and again - as do the stone circles, Maes Howe and all the other fascinating archaelogical sites in Orkney. It's well worth a trip!

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Life in prehistoric times is fascinating to me after reading the Clan Of the Cave Bear series of books by Jean M. Auel.

I would love to visit Orkney, maybe one day. I wanted to visit the Clava Cairns after we visited Culloden a couple of years ago, but I was out voted and we went to Spey Bay to look for dolphins instead (we didn't see any).

We visited a few prehistoric sites in Pembrokeshire where the bluestone of Stonehenge came from. Pentre Ifan burial chamber is worth a visit. We have been to a few on Anglesey too, the island is full of prehistoric sites.

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I love Orkney. You really get a feeling of being at the end of the world, or something. Did you see that italian chapel from ww2? It amused me that when it was all over and the italian POWs were told to go home, one guy stayed on to finish it.

I loved the runes in Maes Howe, which were apparently placed there hundreds of years after it was built, by some vikings taking shelter... and when they decoded it, it apparently reads something like "my bird is the fittest bird in the world" or something like that.

Not at all a religious person, but the cathedral in Kirkwall (St Olaf's?) is the nicest I've been in.

Yup, go to Orkney people. Cheap as chips and something you'll remember for a long time.

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Agree with everything that's been said here. Fantastic place.....the Italian
Chapel... Skara Brae and Maes Howe. Go there ..you won't be
disappointed. Btw the cathedral in Kirkwall is St. Magnus :)

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Jill A wrote:
Btw the cathedral in Kirkwall is St. Magnus :)


That's the chap. Sorry was lazy and couldn't be arsed googling. And my mind is fading, my eyes are bent and my legs are old and grey.... :wink:

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Apparently the was an RAF base at the village on the sign.


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Sir-Twangalot wrote:
Apparently the was an RAF base at the village on the sign.


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There's something wrong with that photo, took me a while to work it out, but I just realised what's missing - a gurning scooterboy standing next to the sign with two thumbs aloft.

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There's always Ringaskiddy near Cork, Ireland

or Cocks in Cornwall

or Sod Hall near Bolton

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