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 5,000 years ago.