What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.
Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to [email protected]
Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to [email protected]
Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to [email protected]
I'm still poor, and have grown up in a poor family, so tourism has never really been a part of my lived reality, but one of the few travels I did in my 20s was a tour of the Scottish coasts in a VW bus with friends, including a visit to the Orkneys and these ruins. All I can say is: They are as beautiful as they are fascinating, probably one of the best Neolithic sites in Europe.
That megalithic Atlantic culture fascinates me. When you start to look at the number and scale of the various monuments and earthworks and realise that they are at a landscape level! It looks like people moved around a lot too and sometimes at great numbers for seasonal events. I'd love to be able to see with my own eyes what it was like.