But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation ... The researchers found ten flagstone houses built deep into the ground. Each house has Stone Age furniture, including beds, a fireplace ...

How the inhabitants of Skara Brae organized themselves is a mystery with few clues for researchers to work with. Presumably, each house held an extended family that included grandparents and ...

but Skara Brae seems to have been a very close community with little room for non-conformists. Every house has the same layout for roughly a family-sized living space (around 40 square metres).

The best preserved house at the 5,000-year-old wonder of Skara Brae is being opened up thanks to 21st-century technology. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get ...

The best-preserved Neolithic settlement in Europe isn't in a French cave or an Italian hillside; it's Skara Brae on Orkney, far beyond the north of Scotland. In 1850, a great storm swept across Orkney ...

Mary Dunnett, Historic Scotland monument manager at Skara Brae, said: "After discovering the graffiti, we feared there may be permanent damage to this precious 5,000-year-old stone, but thanks to our ...

It wasn’t man, but rather an apocalyptic storm in 1850 that exposed the Orkneys’ most significant Neolithic site, Skara Brae, also known as the Scottish Pompeii. The name is a corruption of an ...

Dubbed the “Skara Brae Buddo,” the figurine had been packed away among artifacts from Skaill House, a historic manor overlooking the Neolithic site of Skara Brae, since the 1930s. The 5,000 ...

The neolithic settlement of Skara Brae is a well preserved ... Orkney World Heritage Site. A replica house allows visitors to explore its interior, while the visitor centre provides touch-screen ...

Pupils from Stenness Community School in Orkney visited Skara Brae to learn about its history ... were buried in the corner of the house. The top of these pots were beautifully decorated and ...