The medals for the first International Island Games to be held in Orkney will feature an image of the islands' famous ...

The medals for the Orkney Island Games have been revealed with 100 days to go until the event begins. From 12–18 July, Orkney ...

An iconic Orkney landmark has inspired the medals that will be presented at this summer’s Island Games.

Beautifully crafted medals for the Games are unveiled in all their glory Thursday April 3 marks just 100 days to go until the ...

They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of ...

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is vulnerable to the sea level changes, precipitation changes, and storm intensity and frequency.

But Orkney's trump card is history: Stone Age history, Viking history, World War naval history (both World War I and World War II, when submarines sank battleships in Scapa Flow and the whole ...

Just outside the complex of houses, a workshop stands on its own where chert - a local flint substitute - was made into stone tools. Also, volcanic pumice, washed up on Orkney's beaches from ...