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Important neolithic site in Orkneys may reopen after fears that Covid closure would be permanent

Several artefacts from the historic Tomb of the Eagles have gone on display in Orkney following the site's closure.

The site has long-been a popular tourist attraction, where visitors have unusually been able to handle a number of artefacts from the tomb. Meanwhile, a large number of finds are held by Orkney Museum in Kirkwall and have become the basis of much research into the Neolithic period in Orkney. A number of skulls were found to have been injured by blunt force, perhaps with a mace or axe, with evidence of deformity and disease also discovered. A spokesman for Orkney Archaeology Society said the clo...