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Scotland 2012-Mull, Iona, Ulva, Lewis, Orkneys, Highlands and everything else

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Scotland2012SSSScaraBrae0381

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  • Revealed in a huge storm in 1850. Until then, it had been buried in the sand for 4,900 years.
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  • Note the stone furniture.
  • No, not bookcases. A bed chamber at the left center.
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  • Skaill House, 17th century, home of William Graham Watt, 7th Earl of Breckness, who (along with Mother Nature) unearthed Skara Breain 1850. Watt singlehandedly finished the job and excavated the entire site, and gave it to Scotland.
  • Skaill House is filled with relics collected by the 12 Lairds of Skaill.
  • This is a "rent table" with a drawer for each tenant containing his lease contract, record of rent receipts, and other data.
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  • A 17th century door in Skaill House
  • The cafeteria at Skara Brae/Skaill House
  • On a visit to Yesnaby, the temperature dropped to near freezing with gales of 60 mph!
  • WWII Gun emplacements at Yesnaby. I'm beating a retreat against the gale and light horizontal rain.
  • A family of swans in the loch opposite the Ring of Brodgar. They posed nicely, until I aimed the camera at them.
  • OK, as promised, now we're back to the Ring of Broadgar.
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