In particular, the Brough of Birsay is a hidden gem with a fascinating history. An uninhabited tidal island off the northwest ...

The Orkney Museum: Tankerness House ... The British Museum - Important collections of Viking material, as well as displays relating to religions and beliefs from all over the world.

This small hoard was found in Orkney in 1886. It contained glass and amber beads, a spoon and a Celtic harness mount recycled into a brooch by the Vikings, dating to the early 9th century.

An uninhabited tidal island off the northwest coast of The Mainland of Orkney, it can only be reached ... you will come across are the ruins of a Viking settlement and an earlier Pictish community.

The design of the double-ended yole has origins going back to the Norse Viking raiding boats that ... of crofters from Stroma which sits between Orkney and the mainland. But her voyage to modern ...

More than 60 people from Scotland’s Northern Isles have been given personalised health insights to support their future care ...

stroking his Viking-length beard. “Not to mention, you rarely meet anyone else.” St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, the main town of Orkney Islands, Scotland. Of all the cinematic seascapes to ...

The West of Orkney Windfarm is 31 miles north west of Thurso and will have 125 turbines. Council leader Heather Woodbridge says the rise was about finding the right balance. The Scottish ...