Orkney Riddle Index

 


Orkney Riddle 




This is the southern tip of South Ronaldsay,  close to the Tomb of the Eagles. 

The island offshore is called the Pentland Skerries. It is attached to a shoal of underwater shallow seabed, called the Sandy Riddle.

Hence, the Orkney Riddle. 

Here is the index to 29 blogs that make up the Orkney Riddle. 

1, A Bizarre Idea 

2,  The Orkney Vole 

3,  They Must Have Had Boats 

4,  Neolithic Migration to Orkney 

5,  Pentland Firth 

6,  Walkable land in the North Sea 

7,  The Swifterbant Culture 

8,  Archaeology in the North Sea 

9,  Mainland Settlements 

10,  Barnhouse 

11,  Barnhouse Sweat Lodge 

12,  Modern Sweat Lodge Practice 

13,  Stones of Stenness 

14, The Ring of Brodgar 

15,  Maeshowe Wonder of the Neolithic World 

16,  Cairns of Orkney 

17,  Dem Bones,  Dem Bones 

18,  Skara Brae,  RCAHMS

19, Skara Brae Neolithic Village 

20,  Dating Skara Brae 

21,  The Ness of Brodgar Excavation 

22,  Bere Barley Neolithic Grain

23, Aurochs

24, Dating the Ness of Brodgar 

25,  The Westrays 

26,  In Conclusion 

27,  Finally 

28,  Ice Sheet Britain 

29,  Quaternary Addendum 

Also:-

West Kennet Long Barrow 

Vere Gordon Childe 





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Skara Brae, Childe’s Excavation

Image
  The Orkney Riddle 19/29 Skara Brae Childe’s Excavation  Skara Brae, one of the most perfectly preserved Stone Age villages in Europe, which was covered for hundreds of years by a sand dune on the shore of the Bay of Skaill, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Exposed by a great storm in 1850, four buildings were excavated during the 1860s by William Watt. After another storm in 1926, further excavations were undertaken by the Ancient Monuments branch of the British Ministry of Works. During the 1970s radiocarbon dating established that the settlement was inhabited from about 3200 to 2200 bce. In 1999, as part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, Skara Brae was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, along with Maes Howe, a large chambered tomb, as well as two ceremonial stone circles, the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar. (Britannica) Structure 7 (above) is the most complete building found at Skara Brae. It’s condition is preserved, and it is barred from public acc...
Read more

The Westrays

Image
  Series Title:- Orkney Riddle 25/29 Blog Title:- The Westrays   The Knap of Howar Probably the earliest settlement on the Orkney Archipelago is the Knap of Howar. A Pig bone was found there dated to 3630–3360 (OxA-17778)  The Knap of Howar sits on a small island called Papa Westray which is one of the northernmost islands of the Orkney group. The island is almost 7 km long and 2 km wide, and the Knap of Howar lies on its west coast.  Papa Westray is one of a group of islands that are separated from the mainland Orkney group by the Westray and Stronsay Firths. The main islands of this group are Westray, Papa Westray, Sanday, North Ronaldsay, and Stronsay.  The two oblong buildings of the Knap of Howar, are thought to represent a dwelling-house and a multipurpose workshop-cum-barn, built side by side with an interconnecting passage allowing access from one to the other.  Excavation revealed traces of a central hearth, footings for wooden benches and post-hol...
Read more

A Bizarre Idea

Image
  Series Title:- The Orkney Riddle 1/29 Blog Title:- The Bizarre Idea This is a view of the Pentland Firth from a settlement called Skarfskerry, on the North Coast of Caithness in Scotland. The low headland across the water is a neighbouring piece of Scottish coast and beyond that, at the horizon left of view, and almost invisible, is Orkney, an archipelago that sits beyond the northernmost coast of the Scotland. It is part of the Northern Isles group, and consists of more than 70, mostly low-lying, islands and islets of which only about 20 are inhabited. Orkney is renowned as the home of a Unesco World Heritage site. The islands were occupied over 5000 years ago by Neolithic people who created a group of settlements and monuments of a complexity and quality not surviving anywhere else in Britain at such an early date. The Pentland Firth here that separates Scotland from Orkney is a strait of water about 8 miles wide, and is famously dangerous. The average speed of water runni...
Read more