One of the greatest architectural achievement of Scotland's Neolithic builders has to be the 5000 year old chambered tomb of Maes Howe in Orkney. The builders of the chambered cairn known as Maes Howe ...

The complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework ... forming the core of a World Heritage site called the Heart of Neolithic Orkney. On a heather-clad knoll half a mile away rises a giant ...

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 provide ...

Taversoe Tuick: Also located in Orkney, this relatively small tomb is unusual in having an upper and a lower burial chamber. Dwarfie Stane: This is thought to be a Neolithic tomb, and resembles other ...

On the Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today, this Neolithic home is open to the air ...

Skara Brae: Relatively few Neolithic settlement sites have been excavated. Skara Brae (Orkney) is particularly well known because it is a village of small stonehouses in which much of the furniture ...

Despite the fact that it’s over 5,000 years old, Maeshowe, Orkney's answer to Stonehenge, is in amazing shape. But why did Neolithic Britons go to such great lengths to build it? Explore ...

They were found in a layer that dates to some 4900 years ago, when Neolithic people were farming the area and building enclosures encircled by earthworks of banks and ditches. Most of the carved ...

Orkney’s archaeology never fails to stun now work uncovering the fascinating, ancient past of the islands has been honoured with three awards at a London ceremony. The once-bustling ancient ...