For one day a year a tiny Scottish island is the centre of the world for stone skimmers. The Hebridean isle of Easdale, a site of former slate quarries, has been hosting the World Stone Skimming ...

“Welcome to the Ness of Brodgar,” I heard a tour guide tell his party. “Most of the monuments you can see in this landscape date from the Neolithic—the New Stone Age. The earliest evidence ...

It was long believed that the stone, which sits in the middle of the iconic circle, came from Wales, but new research suggests it actually came from hundreds of miles away in Scotland, raising new ...

Getty Images Experts are abuzz over a new report stating that the Altar Stone — one of the site’s most mysterious pieces — was transported from Scotland prior to the invention of the wheel.

a large slab known as the Altar Stone, consists of rock transported at least 750 kilometers from northeastern Scotland to southern England, say geoscientist Anthony Clarke of Curtin University in ...

the Ring of Brodgar—Scotland’s biggest stone circle. What snagged her attention was the realization that she could no longer hear the tractor. It had been passing up and down, plowing a field ...