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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 closure was “very sad” news. A statement said: “It is a fabulous site and one that is very important to Orcadians and to the story of our history.

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