{"id":1160,"date":"2015-08-30T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2017-01-13T01:39:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:39:03","slug":"orkney-and-shetland-august-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/orkney-and-shetland-august-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Orkney and Shetland August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Orkney<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Stones of Stenness\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20739177825\/in\/album-72157657535610045\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/1\/758\/20739177825_5c5b70f5bc_m.jpg\" alt=\"Stones of Stenness\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stones of Stenness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> For our summer holidays this year, Colin and I went to the northern isles &#8211; my second time to Orkney, our first time to Shetland. \u00a0The World Heritage site of the Stones of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar, Scara Brae and Maes Howe, which I had seen in <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/megalithic-tourism-orkney-and-corsica-may-2012\/\">May 2012<\/a>, is always worth another visit! \u00a0Plus we were able to visit Taversoe Tuick, Blackhammer, the Knowe of Yarso and Mid Howe on the Isle of Rousay, and a number of other smaller sites around the mainland, such as Barnhouse Village,\u00a0Cuween Hill, Unstan, and Wideford Hill. \u00a0Lots of photos of all these places on Flickr, as ever.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Ring of Brodgar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20552374949\/in\/album-72157657535610045\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/629\/20552374949_c2852ed425_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ring of Brodgar\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ring of Brodgar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20551239118\/in\/album-72157657535610045\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/1\/727\/20551239118_22dfb8a7dc_z.jpg\" alt=\"Scara Brae\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scara Brae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBut coming here in the summer meant we were able to see the archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar underway &#8211; an amazing experience \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20117119184\/in\/album-72157657535610045\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/6\/5788\/20117119184_71620c691d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ness of Brodgar Archaeological dig\" width=\"640\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ness of Brodgar Archaeological dig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>We also drove down across the causeways that join the little islands to the south to visit the Tomb of the Eagles. A fuller description of some of these sites is in the <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/megalithic-tourism-orkney-and-corsica-may-2012\/\">May 2012<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n<h2>Shetland<\/h2>\n<p>Shetland is quite a different place altogether. \u00a0Because of the huge oil terminal the roads are probably the best of all the roads on all the Scottish isles &#8211; bar none &#8211; and better than many of the roads on the mainland! \u00a0There are lots of interesting little megalithic places to visit, too, including the Stanydale Temple, and a number of single and pairs of standing stones. \u00a0There is also, on the south coast, the extraordinary settlement of Jarlshof, and on the tiny island of Mousa, the best preserved Iron Age Broch in all of Scotland. \u00a0Here are some of the photos &#8211; more as ever on Flickr.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Stanydale Temple\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20882790629\/in\/album-72157658071210815\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.staticflickr.com\/1\/768\/20882790629_274ff36529_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stanydale Temple\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stanydale Temple<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"single stone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/21077335011\/in\/album-72157658071210815\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c4.staticflickr.com\/1\/639\/21077335011_98f6fbff43_z.jpg\" alt=\"Single stone on Shetland \" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Single stone on Shetland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20882915969\/in\/album-72157658071210815\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/6\/5739\/20882915969_2676c5aac3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Jarlshof\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jarlshof<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Untitled\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/21059782442\/in\/album-72157658071210815\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/6\/5661\/21059782442_3f929eb6b2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mousa Broch\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mousa Broch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Best of all was a fabulous first anniversary dinner overlooking Lerwick harbour.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"Anniversary dinner\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/da5idgpk\/20447215974\/in\/album-72157658071210815\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c7.staticflickr.com\/1\/586\/20447215974_f65330343c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Anniversary dinner\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anniversary dinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orkney For our summer holidays this year, Colin and I went to the northern isles &#8211; my second time to Orkney, our first time to Shetland. \u00a0The World Heritage site of the Stones of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar, Scara Brae and Maes Howe, which I had seen in May 2012, is always worth another &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/orkney-and-shetland-august-2015\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orkney and Shetland August 2015&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","category-journeyman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}