The dunes at the Links of Noltland show their erosion by the wind – the grass tufts left are six feet above the current sand surface and a complete neolithic settlement and bronze age village lie just inches below the surface of the shifting sands.
Aug 302010
Aug 122008
Wandering along the beach at Grobust on Westray in Orkney I spot a group of people with wheelbarrows kneeling in the sand dunes. It can only be the archaeologists. Neolithic grooved-ware pottery, worked bone objects, stone tools and flint abound, with a series of interconnecting buildings revealed in the unstable dunes.
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