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From only £19, The Explorer Pass gives you access to all our attractions – a great value way ORKNEY to explore ’s history.

Ask our staff for details, or visit ISLANDS historicenvironment.scot/explorer Explore a breathtaking landscape and discover ON YOUR VISIT rich World Heritage sites • Many of our Orkney sites are • For details about travelling exposed to the elements so around Orkney visit dress appropriately visitorkney.com • Opening times: • For ferry information please Summer (26 Mar to 30 Sept) call Orkney Ferries Ltd on open seven days 9.30am to 01856 872044 5.30pm. Winter (1 Oct to 31 Mar) • Tide times for available open seven days 10am to 4pm. at all Historic Scotland For details of late night opening staffed sites hours in the summer season and for our Christmas and New Year opening hours, please visit historicenvironment.scot/ visit-a-place

Car Picnic Strong Footwear Parking Area Recommended Bus Display May be closed at lunchtime, Parking on History please call in advance (w) Winter only Gold Green Tourism Toilets Shop Business Award Bicycle Children’s Silver Green Tourism Rack Quiz Available Business Award Visitor Restaurant/ Centre Café VisitScotland Quality Grading Disabled Dogs not Toilets Permitted Accessible by Mobility Scooter Public Transport Available

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Opening times and admission prices Historic Environment Scotland are correct at time of publication, Discover 1,500 years of history Scottish Charity No. SC045925 but may be liable to change. Bishop’s Palace, Earl’s Palace, Kirkwall Hackness Martello Tower Occupied from 3100 to 2500 BC Built before 2700 BC Built around 200 BC Pictish and Viking settlement 12th century (sometime after 1137), Around 1605, built by Earl Patrick Stewart Built between 1813 and 1815 1263 King Hakon dies in the hall

Stonehenge erected Birth of Christ Robert Bruce crowned James VI succeeds Taj Mahal, India The White House, USA 2600 BC 0 AD King of Scotland, 1306 Elizabeth I, 1603 Built 1630s to 1650s Built 1792 to 1800

SKARA BRAE AND BROCH OF BROUGH EXPERIENCE SKAILL HOUSE GURNESS OF BIRSAY This world-famous village offers • Mobility scooters are A noted icon of Orkney’s rich A tidal island with important 5,000 YEARS the chance to see superbly available on request heritage, this is one of the Pictish and Norse settlements, preserved houses with • Admission: (26 Mar to 31 Oct) finest examples of a broch, plus a medieval church. It has fine stone furniture. Visitors can Adult £7.50 Child £4.50 an Iron-Age building style the remains of a Norse sauna OF ORKNEY’S admire the jewellery, tools and Concession £6 (1 Nov to 31 Mar that is unique to Scotland. and a cast of an ornate Pictish unexplained ritual objects the Skara Brae only) Adult £6.50 • At Aikerness, 14m NW carved stone. HISTORY villagers left behind and explore Child £3.90 Concession £5.20 of Kirkwall on the A966 • On a tidal island at Birsay, a modern replica to discover • Last ticket sold 45 mins • Postcode KW17 2NH 20m NW of Kirkwall off the Visit the Orkney Islands and discover what the houses were like to live before closing • Telephone 01856 751414 A966. Check tide tables at in. Skaill House, a fine mansion • Book online in advance at • Open summer only Skara Brae how Neolithic people, the , with gardens, sits adjacent to historicenvironment.scot/ • Admission: Adult £6 • Postcode KW17 2LX and Renaissance earls all left Skara Brae. skara-brae Child £3.60 Concession £4.80 • Telephone 01856 841815 • 19m NW of Kirkwall • Café open in summer, reduced (Skara Brae) their mark on this breathtaking landscape. on the B9056 service in winter – please call • Open when tides allow in advance to check operating • Postcode KW16 3LR ★★★★ mid-Jun to 30 Sept • Telephone 01856 841815 times. Café closes 45 mins • Admission: Adult £5 • Joint ticket with Skaill House before the site closes Child £3 Concession £4 WORLD HERITAGE SITE RANGERS available 1 Apr to 31 Oct

Explore the heart of Neolithic Orkney and its beautiful • Open all year ★★★★★ surroundings with the World Heritage Site ranger service. The rangers run a variety of events to help you learn more about Orkney’s vibrant and unique prehistory – including Skara Brae, the Stones of , the Ring MAESHOWE THE BISHOP’S AND HACKNESS of Brodgar and the ongoing archaeological investigations at . They also provide information about EARL’S PALACE, MARTELLO TOWER the wealth of birds, animals, plants and geology of An impressive 4,700-year-old • Visits are by guided tour only, KIRKWALL AND BATTERY Orkney’s landscape. chambered stone tomb, built leaving from the Visitor Centre Majestic ruins, boasting Built between 1813 and 1815 so the midwinter sun shines in Stenness village, and must medieval and Renaissance to provide defence for British Telephone for details: along its entrance passage. be booked online in advance at 01856 841 732 architecture, standing near St convoys against French This is one of Europe’s finest historicenvironment.scot/ Magnus Cathedral. The brutal and American privateers. Neolithic buildings. It also maeshowe Earl Patrick Stewart built the See evidence of life at contains remarkable Norse • Admission: Adult £6 17th century Earl’s Palace. the barracks. runic carvings. Child £3.60 Concession £4.80 • In Kirkwall on the A960 • At the SE end of • 9m W of Kirkwall on the A965 ★★★★ • Postcode KW15 1PD • Postcode KW16 3PQ • Postcode KW16 3LB • Telephone 01856 871918 • Telephone 01856 701727 • Telephone 01856 851266 • Open summer only • Open summer only • Admission: Adult £5 • Admission: Adult £5 Image These beautifully Child £3 Concession £4 Child £3 Concession £4 carved stone objects may have been used in religious ceremonies, Skara Brae ★★★★