Photos tagged as scotland

Calton Hill 2

Got a picture of Ruaridh with the hills and some of Arthur's seat in the background.

Date: 27 August 2008
Photographer: rwills89: gallery
Location: United Kingdom: gallery
Tags: hills scotland
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Calton Hill

We found this while exploring Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Date: 27 August 2008
Photographer: rwills89: gallery
Location: United Kingdom: gallery
Tags: architecture scotland
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St. Andrew's Chapel

By Arthur's Seat on a typically cloudy day.

Date: 27 August 2008
Photographer: rwills89: gallery
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom: gallery
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Knap of Howar Prehistoric House, Orkney Islands, Scotland

This house is over 5,000 years old and you can still walk inside, though it has lost it's roof. Some stone furnishings remain, giving tantilising hints of the past occupants and their lifestyle. Access is free but it is located on Papa Westray, an island in the north of the Orkney Islands, north of Scotland.

Date: 18 July 2005
Photographer: FiveSenses: gallery
Location: United Kingdom: gallery
Tags: beaches buildings scotland of ancestors orkney knap howar papa westray
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Close up of bow drill friction fire making

I was teaching friction fire making as part of an Orkney tour last year. This picture shows the guest being taught how to use the bow drill method, something we have forgotten since the use of matches but a good skills to know and a good way to understand the relationship our ancestors had with fire.

Date: 25 November 2005
Photographer: FiveSenses: gallery
Location: United Kingdom: gallery
Tags: me islands scotland fire bow drill friction making ancestors orkney
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Window near Inverie

Inverie is only accessible by boat. It has a pub called The Forge. You may be able to get a boat from Mallaig on the West coast of Scotland.

Date: 1 August 2007
Photographer: macgillivr: gallery
Location: United Kingdom: gallery
Tags: scotland window inverie
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Guillemots and kittiwakes

Date: July 2007
Photographer: Wardsan: gallery
Location: Birsay, United Kingdom: gallery
Tags: animals scotland
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Looking towards Westray

From the Brough of Birsay. The buildings in the foreground are the remains of the 10th-12th century Norse settlement. There was a Pictish settlement here in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Date: July 2007
Photographer: Wardsan: gallery
Location: Birsay, United Kingdom: gallery
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Shag

Phalacrocorax aristotelis. (Phalacrocorax means 'bald raven' in latinised Greek. Shags and cormorants were believed to be related to ravens until at least the 16th century. Indeed 'cormorant' derives from 'corvus marinus', or sea raven.)