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 ...

Skara Brae stands tall among Scotland's most outstanding ... has earned it the nickname of the 'Scottish Pompeii.' Its stone ...

But on the Orkney Islands, there aren't many trees. Neolithic people at Skara Brae built their houses from stone. The village is made up of a group of one-roomed circular homes. The houses have ...