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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 search dress appropriately visitorkney.com • Opening times: • For ferry information please Summer (1 April to 30 Sept) call Orkney Ferries Ltd on open seven days 9.30am to 01856 872044 5.30pm. Winter (1 Oct to 29 Mar) • Tide times for available open seven days 10am to 4pm. at all Historic Scotland For details of Christmas and staffed sites New Year opening hours visit historicenvironment.scot/ visit-a-place

Car Shop Accessible by Public Parking Transport Bus Picnic Reasonable Parking Area Wheelchair Access Toilets Display Strong Footwear on History Recommended May be closed at lunchtime, Bicycle Rack Children’s Quiz Available please call in advance (w) Winter only Restaurant/ ★★★★★ VisitScotland Quality Grading Visitor Centre Café

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Opening times and admission prices Historic Environment Scotland are correct at time of publication, Scottish Charity No. SC045925 but may be liable to change. of Gurness Brough of Birsay 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 • Admission: (1 April to 31 Oct) A noted icon of Orkney’s rich A with important 5,000 YEARS the chance to see superbly Adult £7.50 Child £4.50 heritage, this is one of the Pictish and Norse settlements, preserved Neolithic houses with Concession £6 (1 Nov to 29 Mar finest examples of a broch, plus a medieval church. It has fine stone furniture. Visitors can Skara Brae only) Adult £6.50 an Iron-Age building style that the remains of a Norse sauna OF ORKNEY’S admire the jewellery, tools and Child £3.90 Concession £5.20 is unique to Scotland. and a cast of an ornate Pictish unexplained ritual objects the • Last ticket sold 45 mins At Aikerness, 14m NW of carved stone. villagers left behind and explore • before closing Kirkwall on the A966 On a tidal island at Birsay, HISTORY a modern replica to discover • • Café open in summer, reduced • Postcode KW17 2NH 20m NW of Kirkwall off the what the houses were like to live service in winter – please call in. Skaill House, a fine mansion • Telephone 01856 751414 A966. Check tide tables at Visit the Orkney Islands and discover in advance to check operating with gardens, sits adjacent to • Open summer only Skara Brae times. Café closes 45 mins how Neolithic people, the , Skara Brae. • Admission: Adult £6 Child £3.60 • Postcode KW17 2LX Vikings and Renaissance earls all left their before the site closes Concession £4.80 • Telephone 01856 841815 • 19m NW of Kirkwall on the (Skara Brae) mark on this breathtaking landscape. B9056 • Open when tides allow • Postcode KW16 3LR ★★★★★ ★★★★ mid-Jun to 30 Sept • Telephone 01856 841815 • Admission: Adult £5 Child £3 • Joint ticket with Skaill House Concession £4 WORLD HERITAGE SITE RANGERS available 1 April to 31 Oct • Open all year Explore the heart of Neolithic Orkney and its beautiful • Wheelchairs available 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 , the Ring MAESHOWE THE BISHOP’S AND HACKNESS of Brodgar and the ongoing archaeological investigations CHAMBERED CAIRN EARL’S PALACE, MARTELLO TOWER at . They also provide information about KIRKWALL AND BATTERY the wealth of birds, animals, plants and geology of An impressive 4,700-year-old • Please visit Orkney’s landscape. chambered stone tomb, built so historicenvironment.scot/ Majestic ruins, boasting medieval Built between 1813 and 1815 the midwinter sun shines along maeshowe for the most up and Renaissance architecture, to provide defence for British Telephone for details: its entrance passage. This is one to date visiting arrangements standing near . convoys against French 01856 841 732 of Europe’s finest Neolithic • Admission: Adult £6 The brutal Earl Patrick Stewart built and American privateers. buildings. It also contains Child £3.60 Concession £4.80 the 17th century Earl’s Palace. See evidence of life at remarkable Norse runic carvings. In Kirkwall on the A960 the barracks. ★★★★ • • 9m W of Kirkwall on the A965 • Postcode KW15 1PD • At the SE end of Hoy • Postcode KW16 3HH • Telephone 01856 871918 • Postcode KW16 3PQ • Open summer only • Telephone 01856 701727 • Admission: Adult £5 Child £3 • Open summer only Concession £4 • Admission: Adult £5 Child £3 Concession £4 Image These beautifully ★★★★ carved stone objects may have been used in religious ceremonies, Skara Brae