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 ...

There are stone seats and beds and even stone shelves where precious objects were kept! Today, the homes at Skara Brae are open to the air, but they were probably covered with roofs of turf and ...

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 dwellings, which still feature built-in furniture, bear witness to ...