Orkney's Stone Circles - UNESCO World Heritage

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : Top AirVuz contributor and pilot seb-depp brings us this excellent drone video of an important ancient ruins site in northern Scotland called the Ring of Brodgar. It's located on an island called Mainland, the largest of the Orkney archipelago just north of the "real" Scottish mainland. The nearly perfect Neolithic stone circle is believed to date to 2000-2500 BC. Measuring 340 ft. in diameter (about 104 m), the circle originally consisted of 60 stones, about half of which now remain standing.

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Orkney is full of prehistoric sights and some of the most inspiring and majestic are shown here: the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness: Less than a mile apart they form a prehistoric centre together with Barnhouse, Maes Howe and Unstan (shown in a later video). Brodgar once had 60 stones (27 still standing) set in a wide circle, surrounded by a ditch. It dates from around 2.000 BC. The Stones of Stenness are set in a much smaller circle, 4 of the original 12 from around 2.900 BC still standing. Next it's Maes Howe, guided tour only sold out for a few weeks but if I remember correctly it's forbidden to film in there anyway. Together with Skara Brae (again: see later video) they form a UNESCO World Heritage Sight. Maes Howe is more than 5.000 years old and the best chambered cairn of Northern Europe.
Next stop (after breakfast) is Dounby Click Mill, a cute little mill building probably from the early 1800s.
Going back in time around 1.800 years we see the Broch of Gurness, nothing against Mousa Broch on Shetland but still well worth a visit.
Then we find ourselves at the east coast of Mainland, Orkney, at The Gloup and the Brough of Deerness, a perfect place for drones.

Drones: DJI FPV (GoPro 10), Rekon 5 (GoPro 6), DJI Mini 2, additional footage by DJI Osmo Pocket

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