Gazing out over a landscape alive with vaulting standing stones, mysterious henges and Neolithic villages, it's not hard to find yourself swept away by the drama of Orkney. Home to a group of four prehistoric UNESCO-listed monuments, known collectively as the ‘Heart of Neolithic Orkney’, it's little wonder that one BBC series dubbed these Scottish isles the ‘Ancient Capital of Britain’.
“Orkney's wealth of prehistoric treasures offers evidence that its population 5,000 years ago may have been as large as it is today,”
