Orkney : a historical guide /
Wickham-Jones, C. R.
Edinburgh : Birlinn,
1998.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216).
The natural background -- The first settlers: Mesolithic Orkney -- Early farmers: Neolithic Orkney -- The first metalworkers: Bronze Age Orkney -- Fighting farmers: Iron Age Orkney -- The coming of the missionaries: Pictish Orkney -- Foreign settlers: the Norse in Orkney -- Transfer to Scotland: Scottish earls in Orkney -- The improving years: Orkney in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- War and peace: Orkney in the twentieth century -- Museums.
Historic sites
Archaeology and history