This is the fourth of my Orkney Stories video. Looking at the soft green landscape its hard to believe millions of years ago it was a sandstone desert and was located near the equator. I'm also delighted to announce that the first three Orkney Story videos have been accepted for Earth lines
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Orkney Stories 2 Skara Brae
This is the second of nine Orkney Stories after my revisit to Orkney mainland in October last year following a ten year absence. Nowhere is the island's ancient self more more powerfully felt than at it's neolithic sites. This is about the 5000 year old village of Skara Brae located at the Bay of Skaill and only discovered in 1850 after a great storm uncovered it from the sand dunes. It is older than the Great Pyramids and that sense of time is powerful.