Doggerland in the news again

[Judi Lynn]

21. It's great to see your comments here. It appears that area has a real value for you.

This part of the world has such an ancient past, still so hidden from modern people. So much needs to be learned.

It would be breath-taking to walk through these sites. It is so easy to wonder how life looked during the time the structures were built, and used.

Here's google images' link to a lot of photos:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1206&bih=568&q=orkney+islands&oq=Orkn&gs_l=img.1.0.0l10.1353.2682.0.7063.4.4.0.0.0.0.119.429.0j4.4.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.4.423.BwlPWGhk0cY

I intend to dive into these photos, and look at their sources when I can spend some time on it. It would be overwhelming to be there in person.

There's not any mystery about why you must love this entire area so much. I hope you will be returning there, again and again. You've awakened some eyes here already to a place we never knew about.

Thanks, to a real Catalonian Orcadian.

Wanted to post a quote from one of Ichingcarpenter's links regarding the Ring of Brogdar:

The monuments at the heart of Neolithic Orkney and Skara Brae proclaim the triumphs of the human spirit in early ages and isolated places. They were approximately contemporary with the mastabas of the archaic period of Egypt (first and second dynasties), the brick temples of Sumeria, and the first cities of the Harappa culture in India, and a century or two earlier than the Golden Age of China. Unusually fine for their early date, and with a remarkably rich survival of evidence, these sites stand as a visible symbol of the achievements of early peoples away from the traditional centres of civilisation...The Ring of Brodgar is the finest known truly circular late Neolithic or early Bronze Age stone ring and a later expression of the spirit which gave rise to Maeshowe, Stenness and Skara Brae[11]

Simply fascinating!