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 ...

Life in Stone Age Orkney was far more refined than once imagined. The well-built homes at Skara Brae, Europe’s most complete Neolithic village, included stone hearths, beds, and cupboards.

Carved stone balls which have been shaped by the ... Around 425 of the spheres are known to historians, and examples have been found in Skara Brae, across Aberdeenshire, and on the islands of ...

But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation ... ten flagstone houses built deep into the ground. Each house has Stone ...

But highly staged. She says: "Everybody on site is looking towards Gordon Childe", who led the excavation of Skara Brae in 1928 and 1929. The Neolithic village at the Bay of Skaill on the west ...

It was thought they were first built in the Iron Age ... Stonehenge's stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period, about 2500 BC. Another famous Neolithic site is Skara Brae, a village ...