Ring of Brodgar, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.
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RING OF BRODGAR
STROMNESS
ORKNEY MAINLAND
SCOTLAND
THE RING OF BRODGAR IS THE MAJESTIC CROWN OF PREHISTORIC SCOTLAND. LOCATED AT THE NESS OF BRODGAR ON THE ISLE OF ORKNEY, FIVE MILES NE OF STROMNESS. THE LARGEST STONE CIRCLE IN SCOTLAND IS A MAJOR PART OF ORKNEY’S WORLD HERITAGE SITE. THE SURROUNDING AREA IS SATURATED WITH PREHISTORIC CONSTRUCTIONS. THIS LANDSCAPE WAS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO OUR ANCESTORS.
THE BRODGAR RING IS THE CENTRAL CIRCLE ON THE THIN STRIP OF LAND WHICH BISECTS THE FRESH WATER LOCH OF HARRAY WITH THE SALT WATER LOCH OF STENNESS. WATER LEVELS WERE LOWER IN THE NEOLITHIC. A HUGE ENIGMATIC LEGACY HAS BEEN LEFT BEHIND ON THIS SMALL ISLAND, OFF THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.
THE NESS OF BRODGAR AREA IS A BEAUTIFUL LOCATION WITH A 360 DEGREE NATURAL AMPHITHEATRE. NO DOUBT THE ANCIENT PEOPLE CAREFULLY PICKED THIS SPECIAL LOCATION FOR ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS. THE PROMINENT HILLS OF HOY, SEEM TO BE SIGNIFICANT TO THE CIRCLE. THE RING WAS SCHEDULED IN 1882 MAKING IT ONE OF THE FIRST HISTORICAL SITES TO BE PROTECTED.
THE CIRCLE WAS CAREFULLY ERECTED ON SLIGHTLY SLOPING GROUND LIKE STONEHENGE. THE RING AND DITCH IS 130M IN DIAMETER, THE CIRCLE ALONE IS 104M WIDE. THE MEGALITHS RANGE IN HEIGHT FROM JUST OVER 2M TO MORE THAN 4.5M HIGH. THE RING TAKES NEARLY FIVE MINUTES TO WALK AROUND THE INSIDE.
A NEAR PERFECT CIRCLE OF THIRTY SIX STONES REMAIN, ORIGINALLY IT IS THOUGHT THERE WAS SIXTY. THE CIRCLE CAME INTO STATE CARE IN 1906 WITH THIRTEEN OF THE STONES BEING RE-ERECTED. BRODGAR LIKE CALLANISH IS WELL PRESERVED, DUE TO ITS REMOTENESS OUT WITH THE SCOTTISH MAINLAND. ON THE ISLANDS, POPULATION IS SPARSE WITH DEVELOPED LAND AND FARMING AT A MINIMUM.
THE RING IS THOUGHT TO DATE BETWEEN 2500BC-2000BC WHICH MAKES THE CIRCLE YOUNGER THAN THE OTHER NESS OF BRODGAR CONSTRUCTIONS. ARCHAEOLOGISTS THINK THE SITES WOULD HAVE SERVED A CEREMONIAL AND SOCIAL FUNCTION WHILE PAYING HOMAGE TO THE ANCESTORS.
CERTAIN STONES HAVE FALLEN NATURALLY OR BEEN PUSHED OVER. IN EDWARDIAN TIMES SOME WERE RE-ERECTED, OTHERS ARE STILL RECUMBENT. ONE MEGALITH WAS STRUCK BY LIGHTENING IN 1980. OTHERS HAVE REMAINED UPRIGHT, STANDING THE TEST OF TIME, FOR NEARLY FIVE MILLENNIA.
SOME OF THE MEGALITHS HAVE WELL DEFINED SHAPES. ONE RESEMBLES A STANLEY BLADE. ANOTHER IS VERY SIMILAR TO A PERSON, YOU CAN MAKE OUT A HEAD, TORSO, ARMS AND LEGS. PERHAPS THIS IS SYMBOLIC OF A DECEASED ANCESTOR OVERLOOKING AND GUARDING THE SACRED CIRCLE.
THERE ARE TWO ENTRANCES, WIDE ENOUGH FOR TWO PEOPLE STANDING SIDE BY SIDE TO ENTER OR EXIT. WE ARE UNSURE OF WHAT WAS IN THE CENTRE IF ANYTHING. THE THREE RING SETTING AT THE NESS IS REMINICENT OF THORNBOROUGH HENGE IN ENGLAND, WHICH IS THOUGHT TO RESEMBLE ORIONS BELT.
THE DITCH DOES NOT HAVE AN OUTER BANK, HOWEVER, THE FIRST ACCOUNT OF THE CIRCLE IN 1529 HAS A BANK REPORTED. MATERIAL FROM THE DITCH WENT INTO THE INTERNAL AREA. THE SURPLUS MATERIAL MAY HAVE BEEN USED FOR THE SURROUNDING MOUNDS. DURING EXCAVATIONS OF THE ROCK CUT DITCH, IT WAS FOUND TO BE 10M WIDE BY NEARLY 3.5M DEEP, THE SIDES WERE ALSO FOUND TO BE STEEPER THAN AT PRESENT.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXCAVATED THREE THIN TRENCHES IN 1973. THIS IS THE ONLY ARCHAEOLOGY RECORDS TO DATE, THEY FOUND NO EVIDENCE FOR A BANK. A 19TH CENTURY REPORT OF TURF STRIPPING TOOK PLACE. GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYING HAS SHOWN ARCHAEOLOGISTS VERY LITTLE. THE CIRCLES INTERIOR REMAINS UNEXCAVATED.
SURROUNDING THE RING OF BRODGAR IS AT LEAST THIRTEEN SO CALLED BURIAL MOUNDS. THE YOUNGEST MAY DATE TO 1500BC. THE OLDEST MAY PRECEDED THE CIRCLE AND EXPLAIN THE RINGS POSITIONING AND ERECTION. UNMETHODICAL EXCAVATIONS TOOK PLACE IN THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES.
THE PREHISTORIC MOUNDS HAVE MODERN NAMES SUCH AS PLUMCAKE MOUND, SOUTH MOUND, FRESH KNOWE AND SALT KNOWE. THESE MOUNDS ARE REMINISCENT OF THE STONEHENGE ENVIRONS, BUT ON A MUCH SMALLER SCALE.
SCOTTISH GEOLOGIST HUGH MILLER VISITED IN 1846 AND QUOTED ‘THEY LOOK LIKE AN ASSEMBLAGE OF ANCIENT DRUIDS, MYSTERIOUSLY STERN AND INVINCIBLY SILENT AND SHAGGY.
SCOTTISH ARCHAEOASTRONOMER, PROFESSOR ALEXANDER THOM, IN PREFACE TO HIS BOOK, MEGALITHIC REMAINS IN BRITAIN, WROTE, ’HERE, AS IN NO OTHER PLACE, THERE ARE ENOUGH REMAINS TO PROVE CONCLUSIVELY THAT THE MOVEMENTS OF THE MOON WERE BEING FULLY OBSERVED.’
THE RING OF BRODGAR ALONG WITH THE MAESHOWE AND THE STONES OF STENNESS, WAS A MONUMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT BY OUR ANCESTORS WHO WERE HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND VASTLY SKILLED IN MULTIPLE AREAS.
AT THE NESS WE CAN WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS AND VISIT THESE BEAUTIFUL CIRCLES AND TOMBS, WHICH STILL EXSIT IN OUR PRESENT DAY. LYING DORMANT FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. THIS VAST COMPLEX WOULD HAVE BEEN AS IMPORTANT AS STONEHENGE OR AVEBURY, PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT.
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS.
The Ring of Brodgar - Orkney, Scotland
The Ring of Brodgar, is part of 'The Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.' The great Neolithic henge the Ring of Brodgar stands sentinel on a slightly sloping isthmus, between the two largest lochs in Orkney.
The remaining 27 upright stones stand in dramatic contrast to the rolling Orkney landscape. The area seems to be illuminated even on the gloomiest of days, perhaps because of the water. Many claim there is something of an indefinable spiritual nature about the place. Nevertheless, this stone circle remains a ancient place of intrigue and mystery.
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The Ring Of Brodgar, Scotland
The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar, or Ring o' Brodgar) is a Neolithic henge estimated to be 4500 years old, it is a stone circle about 6 miles north-east of Stromness on the Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. The Ring of Brodgar was once known as the Temple of the Sun and the nearby Stones of Stenness as the Temple of the Moon. Combined with a 3rd nearby site they form the Belt of Orion.
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Ring of Brodgar - Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Ring Of Brodgar Orkney Islands
This is the largest Neolithic standing stone circle in Scotland, which is more than 340 feet in diameter consisting of 25 stones, the largest of which is 15 feet in height.
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Travel blogs from Ring of Brodgar:
- It was amazing to see a place built before the pyramids Onwards yet again we stopped at the Ring of Brodgar and were able to wander around the site
- , I'm 87% sure that my fellow trip-sters think i'm fit to be put in the Loon's Reserve we were at the Ring of Brodgar at a particularly cold, wet, and windy moment, and I let slip the following: I now understand megaliths and sun-god
- We also saw the ring of Brodgar, a Neolithic burial ground
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- Stenness, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Stromness, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Island, Scotland by Malinda65 from a blog titled Standing stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar
- Bog Cotton plants near Ring of Brodgar by Malinda65 from a blog titled Standing stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar
- Brodgari sõrmus / Ring of Brodgar by Villu from a blog titled Orkney
- Me and the ring of brodgar by Lisa02148 from a blog titled Orkney Islands, Scotland
- Ring of Brodgar by Eatdessertfirst from a blog titled Older than the Pyramids
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Heart of Neolithic Orkney (UNESCO/NHK)
The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some ...
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ORKNEY - Neolithic Heart around the Ness of Brodgar
Four Neolithic sites grouped together on the Mainland of Orkney. These include the Ness of Brodgar,, perhaps the most important Neolithic site ever discovered.
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144+143 Ring of Brodgar, Orkney 謎のリング Answer to the Mystery
１４４ Ring of Brodgar（２） （Mystery and its Answer to the Ring)
+Additional Edition（補足版＋１４３号です。）
Dear Good People in Orkney, North England,
Hello!
It is my pleasure that I can show you these videos about Ring of Brodgar, which has been under a mystery of the world for a long time.
Here is the answer to the mystery, about which you can easily re-examine with your computers.
I hope you do so and make sure that what I have been talking to you is correct.
Thank you very much.
Hiroshi Hayashi
Japan
Jan. 01st 2013
○イギリス・ブロガー（世界遺産・１９９９）のリングの謎と、その答
（リング・オブ・ブロガーには、たいへんな謎が隠されています。
まさに異星人の証拠......と言っても過言でないほどの、証拠です。
最初に補足版を付け加えました。
８つの点で、ピタリと角度が一致したのには、驚きました。
まったく、狂いなしに、です。
残りの角度も、誤差は、１～２度の範囲です。
Hiroshi Hayashi＋＋＋＋＋＋はやし浩司
イギリスには、ストーンヘンジを超える、大きな遺跡がいくつかあります。
そのひとつが、Ring of Brodgar。
今日はその謎解きに挑戦しました.
が、実のところ、謎でも何でもありませんでした。
どうしてこんなリングが謎なのでしょうか。
......謎だったのでしょうか。
北極での地図を重ねてみました。
24基準線のうち、16本が、ぴたりと重なりました。
（遺跡が不明なところもあり、これだけも、偶然を超えたヒット率ということになります。）
There is no mystery about this Ring.
Here is the story.
I show you what it is with evidence.
The Rocks (from the Center of the circle to each rock) shows the directions to each important ruins, or ancient cultures, seen from the North Pole, not from there at the Ring of Blodgar.)
There are 24 or 25 Lines in the Circle and 18 Lines run exactly with the same angles in the same way at the North Pole.
This is the clear evidence that the Ring of Bodgar is the Map of the earth, seen from the North Pole.
それにしても、考古学者たちは、「天文学」「まじない（Magic)」「儀式」という言葉が好きですね。
何かわからないことがあると、これらの言葉を使って説明します。
さらにわからないことがあると、「墓」という言葉を使います。
バカげていると思いませんか。
......どうバカげているかは、このビデオを見ていただければわかります。
Stones of Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, Scotland.
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STONES OF STENNESS
STROMNESS
ORKNEY MAINLAND
SCOTLAND
INTRO
THE STONES OF STENNESS IS ONE OF FOUR SITES WHICH MAKE UP THE HEART OF NEOLITHIC ORKNEY, WORLD HERITAGE SITE. THE STONES OF STENNESS ARE SITUATED ON ORKNEY’S MAIN ISLAND, NINE MILES FROM THE NORTH TIP OF SCOTLAND, ACROSS THE PENTLAND FIRTH.
ORKNEY WAS A JEWEL OF THE NEOLITHIC CULTURE. THE STONES OF STENNESS IS JUST ONE COMPONENT OF A MASSIVE CEREMONIAL LANDSCAPE. THIS MEGALITHIC COMPLEX WAS ERECTED BY OUR PREHISTORIC ANCESTORS. THE RING OF BRODGAR & THE RING OF BOOKAN, MAKE UP A TRILOGY OF SACRED CIRCLES AT THE NESS OF BRODGAR.
SITUATED NEXT TO THE B9055 ROAD AND BETWEEN THE LOCHS OF HARRAY & STENNESS. THE STONES ARE NOT ONLY OF SCOTTISH SIGNIFICANCE BUT GLOBALLY. THE TIME OF CONSTRUCTION IS NOT CLEAR. DATES RANGE FROM BETWEEN 3400BC-2700BC. THE FIRST RECORD OF THE STONES WAS IN 1700AD. THE SITE WAS TAKEN INTO STATE CARE IN 1906.
STONES
THE STONES WERE LAYED OUT IN AN 30M X 32M DIAMETER OVAL.
ORIGINALLY THERE WERE TWELVE STONES, AT PRESENT FOUR REMAIN, THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE SINCE 1760. MODERN MARKERS INDICATE WHERE HOLES OR STONE SETTINGS WERE FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS. WOODEN POSTS COULD HAVE EXISTED BEFORE THE MEGALITHS.
BETWEEN 3000BC-2000BC IS WHEN THE STONES WERE THOUGHT TO BE ERECTED. THE HIGHEST IS OVER 5.7M. IT IS POSSIBLE THE MEGALITHS WERE ERECTED BEFORE THE HENGE CONSTRUCTION. THE TENANT FARMER PULLED DOWN TWO OF THE STONES IN 1851. ONE LAY RECUMBENT, THE OTHER HAD BEEN SHATTERED.
INTERIOR
THE CENTRAL FEATURES WERE IN USE FROM 4950-4500 YEARS AGO. IF YOU ENTER THE SITE FROM THE ORIGINAL ENTRANCE, THE FIRST FEATURE YOU COME TO AFTER THE MEGALITHS, IS A SHORT ARRANGEMENT OF STONES. ACCORDING TO EARLY ACCOUNTS A HUGE RECUMBENT MEGALITH LAY TOWARDS THE CENTRE OF THE RING.
A DOLMEN WAS RECONSTRUCTED IN 1906, THIS RECONSTRUCTION DESTROYED EVIDENCE OF WHAT ONCE EXISTED. IN THE 1970’S THE DOLMEN WAS TAKEN DOWN. THE TWO STONES THAT REMAIN, FRAME MAESHOWE IN THE DISTANCE.
THE FOCAL POINT OF THE INTERIOR IS THE LARGE HEARTH. AN EARLIER HEARTH WOULD HAVE PRECEDED THE ONE WE SEE TODAY, ALONG WITH A TIMBER UPRIGHT. COLIN RICHARDS AN ARCHAEOLOGIST, ARGUES THE ORIGINAL HEARTH CAME FROM THE MIDDLE AREA AT BARNHOUSE VILLAGE, A SHORT WALK AWAY.
HENGE
AROUND THE MEGALITHS WAS A MASSIVE ENCLOSURE HENGE WITH A BANK AND DITCH. THE DITCH WAS 4M WIDE BY NEARLY 2.5M IN DEPTH. THIS WAS A BIG ACHIEVEMENT BY OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS, AS THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN MET WITH MOSTLY SOLID ROCK.
THE SITE LOOKS VERY DIFFERENT TODAY THAN ORIGINALLY IMAGINED. HUNDREDS OF YEARS OF PLOUGHING WORE DOWN THE ORIGINAL HENGE BY 1973. WHAT WE SEE TODAY OF THE HENGE IS A MODERN RECONSTRUCTION OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE IN 1851.
ARCHAEOLOGY
ANIMAL BONES WITH GROOVED WARE POTTERY, SUGGEST THE NEW STONE AGE PEOPLE, COOKED AND DINED AT THE STONES. THIS GROOVED WEAR POTTERY HAS BEEN EXCAVATED AT SOME OF THE BEST KNOWN ANCIENT SITES IN SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND.
THERE IS EVIDENCE OF FIRE IN THE SMALL CENTRAL SLAB SETTING. THERE IS SIGNS OF ACTIVITY FROM MUCH LATER ON IN HISTORY. PITS WERE DUG AND FILLED WITH POTTERY JARS. THESE WERE ALSO FOUND IN NEARBY IRON AGE SETTLEMENTS FROM 3000 YEARS LATER.
OTHER INFO
AT THE TOP OF THE STENNESS PENINSULA IS THE WATCHSTONE. IT IS SITUATED A SHORT WALK AWAY TO THE NW. THE HOLED ‘STONE OF ODIN’ WAS NEARBY WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN 1814. THIS STONE WAS RENOWNED FOR SEALING CONTRACTS AND HEALING.
THE NAME STENNESS DERIVES FROM STEIN-NES, AN OLD NORSE WORD MEANING STONE PROMONTORY. THESE SITES AT THE NESS OF BRODGAR ALONG WITH CALLANISH ARE THE BEST KNOWN PREHISTORIC REMAINS IN SCOTLAND.
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR ANCIENT ANCESTORS
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We Went To The Orkney Islands!
So..
It took us 10 hours but this week we travelled to the north of Scotland, the Orkney Islands! We Went for a wedding.. Krystinas sister was getting married at the ring of Brodgar!
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Thanks for watching guys :)
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Tour Scotland travel video of the Ring Of Brodgar, a Neolithic henge and stone circle about 6 miles north east of Stromness on the Mainland on visit to the Orkney Islands. The Ring of Brodgar, or Brogar features in Kathleen Fidler's 1968 novel The Boy with the Bronze Axe; here, it is depicted in a midsummer ceremony in which a lamb is sacrificed. In Fidler's story, women are forbidden from entering the Ring, which is a male only space. In Troika Games 2001 title Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, the Ring of Brodgar appears in the town of Roseborough and is pivotal to the plot.