'Cathedral' as old as Stonehenge unearthed
The Scotsman, 14 August 2009

EVEN in an area as archaeologically rich as Orkney, it is being
hailed as the find of a lifetime. Experts have unearthed a Neolithic
"cathedral" – a massive building of a kind never before seen in
Britain – which has left them in awe of its scale and workmanship. At
82ft long and 65ft wide, it stands between two of Orkney's most
famous Neolithic landmarks, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of
Stenness. While impressive in their own right, they would have been
dwarfed by the monumental building now uncovered and, in comparison,
may have been peripheral features in the islands' Stone Age
landscape. Nick Card, from the Orkney Research Centre for
Archaeology, who is leading the dig, said the building was
effectively a cathedral for the north of Scotland.

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