Skara Brae has become open (shared ticket with Skaill quarters, Apr-Oct) and we include delighted to enjoy your straight back.

Exposed by a storm in 1850, Skara Brae offers a remarkable image of existence 5,000 years back, before Stonehenge had been constructed.

Explore this prehistoric town to check out old properties fitted with rock beds, dressers and chair. a replica quarters enables visitors to explore the interior, even though the tourist hub provides touch-screen presentations, fact-finding tests and a chance to see artefacts discovered while in the archaeological excavations regarding the 1970s.

There’s a cafe and a properly stocked gift store attempting to sell locally-made souvenirs and crafts. Joint ticket with Skaill Household available April – Sep.

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Northern Europe’s best-preserved Neolithic village

The Neolithic village of Skara Brae was actually found in winter season of 1850. Crazy storms torn the turf from a higher dune named Skara Brae, near the Bay of Skaill, and subjected an immense midden (refuse heap) and damages of old stone property. Leia mais →