Orkney's Tomb of the Eagles to reopen

[Imperial Dave]

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25216043.orkneys-5000-year-old-tomb-eagles-reopen-101k-grant/

Excellent news

[Ian61]

Having only been to Orkney as pandemic restrictions were loosening I missed out so I will have to go again. 

[Imperial Dave]

That old excuse....

[Ian61]

That old excuse....

Do you think I might have to be more inventive to persuade the wife?

[Imperial Dave]

Possibly....new shopping centre/tea shop/bookshop/craft shop/arts centre (delete as applicable) now in vicinity of said site...

 

[Jim Webster]

It's so long since I visited they were probably just getting over the Black Death 

[Imperial Dave]

Or your visit? 

[Erpingham]

When I went quite a few years ago it was very much an adjunct to a farm, run by the farmer's family. You could handle artefacts from the site in a shed. No shopping centres (or settlements bigger than a farm) nearby. I do remember watching a hen harrier hunting in a field next to the car park though.

[Imperial Dave]

Sounds like Y Gaer fort near me 

[Martin Smith]

Sounds like Y Gaer fort near me 

...I think I went there in about 1973-4...but the memory is a tad vague that far back. Would've gone from a family visit to Brecon (?).

[Imperial Dave]

Yup....that's the badger

[Martin Smith]

Yup....that's the badger

My recollection is vague, but I think it was a hilltop site and had an aura of 'bleak and cutoff from anywhere'... the enduring memory is of wondering how it must have been for the poor s*ds posted out there! The drizzle may not have helped, of course....

[Imperial Dave]

It's a little bit out of the way certainly but it's a fabulous area to traipse around