Skara brae

The Neolithic village of Skara Brae was revealed during the winter of 1850 when a particularly ferocious storm battered Orkney. The combination of wind and extremely high tides stripped the grass f…

Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It consists of ten clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3180 BC–2500 BC. It is Europe's most complete Neolithic village and the level of preservation is such that it has gained UNESCO World Heritage Site status and been called the "Scottish Pompeii". To view my blog from day five of my Scotland holiday. Click the link below…

Skara Brae: A Window into Neolithic Life Introduction Skara Brae is an extraordinary prehistoric village located on the Orkney Islands of Scotland,...

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.

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Several years ago we watched ‘A History of Britain’ by Simon Schama to get an idea of places we wanted to visit on our 2014 UK trip. This BBC documentary begins in the stone-age village of Skara Brae. It immediately went down on our bucketlist but unfortunately it was located too far north for our …

A Scottish photographer has shared a snap of the "absolutely spectacular" neolithic Skara Brae settlement on Orkney, and it has a fascinating history dating back further than the Egyptian pyramids

Of the top things to do in Shetland, Jarlshof was my favourite. Home to the largest site of Viking remains in Britain, and years of history before that.

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