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The places people lived — Neolithic villages, broch townships and the layered homes of centuries.
Settlement · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
Settlement on the site began sometime between 500 and 200 BC, when an Iron Age community raised a stone broch tower — once probably around 10 metre…
Settlement · Pictish & early medieval
Orkney Islands
The earliest settlement on the tidal island is thought to date to the 6th century, perhaps by Christian missionaries.
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Jarlshof preserves an unusually complete sequence of human occupation, with remains dating from about 2500 BC to the 17th century AD — Bronze Age o…
Settlement · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
Ten roofless stone houses survive with their built-in furniture still in place — hearths, dressers, box-beds — occupied for roughly six hundred yea…
Settlement · Prehistoric
East Lothian
The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC and shows evidence of occupation and ramparts after 1000 BC; the ramparts were rebuilt and…
Settlement · Medieval
Perth and Kinross
This island stronghold was the prison from which Mary, Queen of Scots was forced to abdicate before her dramatic escape in 1568.
Briefer entries — recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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