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The Orkney Islands were at the innovative center of Britain's Neolithic culture, as the village of Skara Brae shows.
Skara Brae is part of a Unesco World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney (Image: Tripadvisor) It currently remains unknown why life at the village ended in around 2500 BCE.
Discovered by chance in 1850, Skara Brae is the best-preserved Neolithic village in Europe. Located on the coast of Orkney, Scotland, this 5,000-year-old site is a fascinating reminder of a long ...
What is Skara Brae? Find out about the history of Skara Brae in this primary history guide from BBC Bitesize.
Skara Brae's remarkable survival through the ages is thanks to the design of the original builders who buried the stone-slab walls up to roof level in clay soil and waste material in order to ...
Wall construction These walls are solidly built; the early residents of Skara Brae were building homes that would last, not shacks.
Home Out & About Skara Brae: The prehistoric village on Orkney that's older than Great Pyramid of Giza The best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Europe isn't in a French cave or an Italian hillside; ...
Archaeologists stunned by discovery of 5,000-year-old UK equivalent to Pompeii Cast far to Britain's north, the discovery dates back a staggering 5,000 years and offers vital clues about the ...
Tourists weirdly throw pennies into a toilet at the UK's most famous lost city on the Orkney islands. It was lived on from between 3100 to 2500BC, and Skara Brae on the Orkney archipelago is one ...
SCOTLAND'S towns and settlements are proud of their roots, but few can boast the antiquity of Skara Brae on the Orkney Islands.
Skara Brae is part of a Unesco World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney (Image: Tripadvisor) It currently remains unknown why life at the village ended in around 2500 BCE.
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