Crimson & Violet & Gray

Crimson is the Neolithic ochre — the deep vivid crimson of the ancient Orkney pigment tradition. Orcadian Neolithic ochre: the Iron Age and Neolithic use of red ochre (the most immediately ancient and the most comprehensively globally distributed natural pigment — the specific deep vivid crimson-to-red-orange of hematite — Fe₂O₃ — iron oxide — the most ancient human colorant — used in the most immediately important Orkney Neolithic sites as the most specific burial pigment) at the most important Orkney Neolithic monuments includes: Skara Brae (the most immediately internationally famous Neolithic village — approximately 3100-2500 BCE — the most comprehensively preserved Neolithic settlement in Northern Europe — where red ochre residues have been found in the most important stone-built dwellings and the most significant burial deposits — the most immediate evidence of the most ancient Neolithic pigment use in Scotland). Violet is the Orkney aurora — the deep vivid violet of the most dramatic Northern Lights display. Orkney aurora: the aurora borealis at Orkney (visible on approximately 30-40 clear, dark nights per year from the most important Orkney observation sites — particularly the Ring of Brodgar — the most immediately internationally famous circular henge monument — the most dramatically open and the most completely sky-dominated viewpoint in the most important Orcadian landscape) is one of the most immediately impressive and the most comprehensively dramatic of any aurora viewing experience available to the European observer — the specific combination of the most completely flat and the most immediately sky-dominated Orkney landscape (the most completely treeless and the most dramatically open of any Scottish island landscape — the specific low Orcadian horizon in every direction creating the most comprehensive and the most immediately overwhelming 360° sky visibility of any inhabited point in Scotland) with the most frequently occurring and the most dramatically vivid aurora at approximately 59°N latitude (the most aurora-active inhabited latitude in Scotland — Orkney being at the southern edge of the most intensely aurora-active auroral oval) creating the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively dramatic Northern Lights display available to any Scottish island dweller. Gray is the Orkney flagstone — the medium gray of the most ancient Neolithic building material. Caithness flagstone: the Caithness flagstone (the most specifically and the most immediately geologically Orcadian sedimentary rock — the Old Red Sandstone flagstone of the most characteristic Devonian-period lacustrine sediment — approximately 380 million years old — the most immediately practicable and the most comprehensively flat-splitting of any Scottish sedimentary rock — splitting along the most precise and the most immediately flat bedding planes to produce the most perfectly uniform and the most immediately usable building flags of any Scottish geological formation) is the most characteristic and the most specifically Orcadian building material — used from the most ancient Neolithic period (at Skara Brae — approximately 3100 BCE — where every most important interior feature of every most characteristic Neolithic dwelling — the beds, the dressers, the hearths, and the roof structures — was built from the same Caithness flagstone still used in Orkney buildings today) through the most recent contemporary construction — a continuity of approximately 5,000 years of the same geological material used for the same most fundamental building purposes.