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Orkney: Centre of the Stone Age

The Ancients

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The Neolithic Site of the Bit Peninsula

Geophysics just showed this was true because here on the tip of the bit peninsula we had just dozens of anomalies rectangular ones, circular ones, linear ones, contentor ones, you name it. The following year when this field was last plowed large stone slab turned up which we investigated but instead of finding stone kistra stone coffin we found part of the top one of these walls and that's what really got the excavation started very small scale to begin with just a series of test pits across it.

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