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Inside the Broch of Gurness

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December 12, 2016
Ancient heritage / beauty / history / Monuments / Orkney

Broch of Gurness, Mainland, Orkney, monuments, staircases — © www.anniewrightphotography.com

Inside the Broch of Gurness is an elegantly curved staircase dating from somewhere between 500 BC and 100 AD. People lived here and fought off attacks on the remote island of Mainland (Orkney), where the known world mainly comprised Norway to the north and Scotland and England to the south. (more…)

Broch of Gurness

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August 22, 2016
beauty / Orkney

The Broch of Gurness as twilight falls and the spirits rise on Mainland, Orkney. History The Broch of Gurness is an Iron Age broch village on the northwest coast of Mainland Orkney in Scotland overlooking Eynhallow Sound, about 15 miles…