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Art of Neolithic Orkney

The Ancients

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Neolithic Art in Orkney

Until recently, we didn't have any examples of what you might think of Neolithic art as in carved stones. And we still don't have any from the stalled cans, which is very interesting. So it seems to be a very different sort of thing going on there. There is a possibility that there are decorated stones from this earlier period but we just haven't found huge numbers of them yet.

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