In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

Researchers believe the drinking hall may have been used by the Norse chief Earl Sigurd — who was a powerful figure during ...

Made of turf taken from local pastures it rose to a height of around 20 ft from a 24ft stone foundation. On its northern side, along the whole length of the wall, ran a huge ditch, 20 feet deep ...

Inside its stone walls (which survived a World War I bombing), some of the attractions available for visitors to view are the Honours of Scotland (the oldest crown jewels in Britain), St. Margaret ...

Carefully-selected interlocking stones are used to make walls without the need ... Richard Love He is an advanced dry stone waller and chairman of the South East Scotland branch of the Drystone ...

Scotland, when the Romans came ... So dangerous that you live up here, behind two rings of stone walls, able to see anyone coming for miles around. But it’s not just people you have to worry ...

Similarities between stone circles in Scotland and Stonehenge ... would gather near Stonehenge at the village of Durrington Walls, bringing pigs and cattle with them for a feast, Parker Pearson ...

The Altar Stone at the center of Stonehenge, long believed to have been hauled to southwest England from Wales, was actually transported more than 450 miles from northeastern Scotland, a team of ...