It's a freshwater loch where the people of Skara Brae could have caught trout and eels. Most Neolithic people built houses with wooden frames. But on the Orkney Islands, there aren't many trees.

Skara Brae stands tall among Scotland's most outstanding archaeological sites. Found on the main island of Orkney, this ancient Neolithic village has endured the millennia thanks to the actions of ...

Literally thousands of sites are scattered through the islands, the majority of them ... of the dramatic way they were revealed, made Skara Brae Orkney’s most spectacular find.

The place is Orkney. Seventy islands (20 inhabited ... In other words, not a bad place for photography. Skara Brae. Stone Age folk were living in this village long before Stonehenge was built.

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Orkney Islands Council (OIC ... sites that form part of the Heart of Neolithic Orkney (Skara Brae, Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge, Maeshowe ...

The northern isles of the Orkney archipelago receive fewer visitors ... here from this late era of the Stone Age, the village ...

The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is vulnerable to the sea level changes, precipitation changes, and storm intensity and ...

Stromness in the Orkney Islands, Scotland ... Encounters with the prehistoric site Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar stone circle and Kirkwall’s magnificent St Magnus Cathedral are utterly ...

Rated the best island in our survey, readers praised Orkney’s many prehistoric sites – including the Ring of Brodgar, a stone circle; Maeshowe, a chambered cairn; and Skara Brae, a preserved Neolithic ...

In 1999 Skara Brae (along with other Orkney sites Maes Howe and the Ring of Brodgar) were designated as a World Heritage site.