[SunkenCiv]

The Bay of Firth around Damsay and the Holm of Grimbister as it would have been in the Mesolithic period 7,500 years ago -- mostly land (shown in green) and a possible loch. The intertidal zone is shown in light blue.
Fast forward to the early Neolithic, and the influx of the sea (dark blue) is well under way, although Damsay was still connected to "the mainland".
By the Late Neolithic/Bronze Age, Damsay was a tidal island, accessible at low tide, and almost surrounded by sea water.

[Eccl 10:2]

Do the points of the crescent form a line which is perpendicular to the line which points toward Mecca?

[ApplegateRanch]

“The preliminary results from the high-resolution geophysical sensing are suggesting that there is an unusual ‘object’ in the shallow water just off the shore, but more work is needed before we can identify it or even confirm whether it is a natural, perhaps geological, feature, or something man-made.”

I take it there's nobody in the Orkneys who has ever heard of SCUBA gear & UW video cameras?

Personally, I think they may have imbibed one two many mint joule-ups while perusing their results; even at 400% screen magnification, I had no idea what "ring" structure they were talking about in the scan.

[blam]

My people did that and we want you to leave it alone. Mind your own business...we have secret stuff there just for us and future generations of our people.

In a few thousand years, you all will be asking what's up with the seed bank when you discover it under the ice too.

BTW, leave the seeds alone...those are ours too.

[Bellflower]

What is the little white box with the black dot in it next to and under the red and yellow over to left?