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	Skara Brae - The Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement
		Buried into the southern shore of Sandwick's Bay o' Skaill is the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - one of Orkney's most-visited ancient sites and regarded as one of the most remarkable monuments in Europe.
		In its lifetime, Skara Brae became embedded in its own rubbish and this, together with the encroaching sand dunes, meant the village was gradually abandoned.
		Skara Brae is under constant threat by the erosion caused by the fierce Orkney weather and the onslaught of the sand and sea.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/skarabrae (706 words)

	Skara Brae - The Layout of the Village
		The identical layout of each house meant that, on passing each door, the visitor was immediately aware of the central hearth, with the fire burning, and the stone dresser illuminated by firelight.
		The discovery of beads and paint within the smaller beds prompted archaeologist Gordon Childe to speculate that the women used the smaller beds, while the men took the larger ones in the male section of the house.
		Although Skara Brae as it stands today looks like a complete village, visitors should remember that the houses still standing are not all from the same period.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/skarabrae/layout.htm (481 words)

	Scara Brae : Everything you need to know - The World of Althanas
		A canyon that lies not too far away from Scara Brae’s town gates, this area is used as a make-shift trail from the city to Goblin Cove.
		However, because the Goblins and Scara Brae are on rather ugly terms, the canyon is often a spot that is avoided.
		Knights of Scara Brae – The Knights of Scara Brae were a little known part of the island compromising of twenty knights who supplied their own weapons and armor.
	www.althanas.com /world/showthread.php?t=1498 (6266 words)

	Orkney Scara Taing
		Significance: the cliff sections at Scara Taing (HY 369330) are important for the exposures of three superimposed tills and subjacent striated bedrock surfaces which provide evidence of fluctuating patterns of ice flow during the Devensian cold stage.
		The tills at Scara Taing appear to reflect the sequence of glaciation during the Devensian cold stage.
		The associated oriented hummocky moraine, which rises to c.50 m O. on the flanks of the Brae of Moan, suggests the presence of an ice margin no more than a few km W of the present shoreline.
	www.fettes.com /orkney/Scara%20Taing.htm (565 words)

	Skara Brae
		Nestled on the sandy shore of the Bay o Skaill on the western coast of the Orkney mainland is the neolithic village of Skara Brae - one of Orkney's most visited sites and rightly regarded as one of the most remarkable monuments in Britain.
		Because of the protection offered by the sand, the buildings are remarkably well-preserved and in some cases the walls of the huts still stand and alley-ways are still roofed with their original stone slabs.
		It would appear that the last occupants of Skara Brae left the village in a hurry, perhaps fleeing from a storm similar to the one which uncovered the site.
	www.orkney.org /tradition/skarab.htm (541 words)

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		Orkneyjar - The Discovery and Excavation of Skara Brae.
		Evidence is presented for Skara Brae having been settled by Ancient Egyptian Priest Astronomers around 4000BC.
		Skara Brae's occupants were farmers who bred cows and sheep and grew cereals,...
	www.hotbot.com /?ps=null&loc=searchbox&tab=web&provKey=Inktomi&query=skara&currProv=google (242 words)

	Caledonian Picts * Albawest
		The stone houses were of a high standard, they had indoor water storage capacity, indoor tanks to keep fish alive until they were required and even had indoor toilets and underground drainage systems.
		By no means were all villages like Scara Brae, but the peoples of Caledonia still had an advanced civilisation that pre-dated that of the Romans.
		When Rome was literally in the Stone Age - Scara Brae was flourishing.
	www.albawest.com /rome.html (2698 words)

	Stromness – Explorers, Pirates and Neolithic Villages, Orkney Islands Tourism and Things to Do - IgoUgo
		The three masted vessel the “Prince of Wales” heeled as she met the fresh breeze and turned to starboard as she entered the choppy grey waters of Hoy Sound.
		Scara Brae village, not far from present-day Stromness, sat snugly by a freshwater lake.
		The villagers were farmers who bred sheep and cows, grew cereal crops, and hunted red deer,...
	www.igougo.com /travelcontent/journal.aspx?journalID=24065 (259 words)

	Thursday 14 June
		It looked like heavy rain when we set off, so we sat and read the paper in the waiting room at the ferry terminal.
		When it cleared we rode via Finstown to Stenness to see the stones and the Brogar Ring and then on to Scara Brae.
		Scara Brae has a very well preserved group of round stone houses from 3000 BC with central fire places and built from flagstones.
	www.coulouris.net /george-jean/tandemscotland2001/day14/Layout.html (172 words)

	History Channel Classroom:
		One of the most important archeological finds in Britain is the village of Skara Brae.
		Historians believe that Skara Brae was not an isolated village, that it was part of a larger network or community.
		Compare your society’s death or burial rituals with the death and burial rituals of the Orcadians of Scara Brae.
	www.historychannel.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.1264.html (427 words)

	Storms Are an Old, Old Story \| The Voice, October 2004 \| Synod of Living Waters
		EDITOR'S NOTE: While we are still assessing the damage of Hurricane Ivan in the Synod of Living Waters, consider what a long ago storm uncovered in the Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland at Scara Brae, a World Heritage Site visited this summer by a group from the Synod.
		In the winter of 1850 a wild storm stripped the grass from the high dune known as Skara Brae in the Bay of Skaill on mainland Orkney.
		The village of Skara Brae was inhabited before the Egyptian pyramids were built, and flourished many centuries before construction began at Stonehenge.
	www.synodoflivingwaters.com /the_voice/0410/28story.html (278 words)

	QI Talk Forum \| View topic - Nijinsky
		His view is that it is technically far easier to build with unmortared stones in a round shape rather than a square because of the technical problems inherent in building corners.
		The houses in Scara Brae are truncated cones like beehive shapes - the stones lean in all the way around the circumference and this makes the structure strong and stable.
		It could be that the Neolithic people knew this by the simple fact of attempting to build other shapes and finding they didn't work as well - the proof being that the stability of the shape of the houses at Scara Brae has led to them lasting this long.
	www.qi.com /talk/viewtopic.php?t=27&start=15 (1495 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland's magical ancient circles leave Stonehenge standing
		Stonehenge is alright but nothing compared to the Ring or Brodgar, Scara Brae and Callinish stones which all outdate the Henge by thousands of years.
		I was on Orkney this summer and saw Skara Brae, the Standings Stones, Ring, etc and my message to the tourists of the world is: don't bother, there's nothing to see.
		I was "blown away" as the kids say when I first saw the Ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae, etc. To think that I walked among stone "houses",etc. that were older than the Pyramids was something that I'll not forget.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1626742006 (1912 words)

	Skara Brae, Settlement, Megalithic Mysteries
		There is much to say about Skara Brae but I'll leave that for someone else...
		Visit the Prehistoric Web Index for other sites about Skara Brae.
		Access: Situated in Skaill Bay to the west of the Orkney Mainland.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~aburnham/scot/skara.htm (270 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Historic Places - Scotland's magical ancient circles leave Stonehenge standing
		Stonehenge is alright but nothing compared to the Ring or Brodgar, Scara Brae and Callinish stones which all outdate the Henge by thousands of years.
		I was on Orkney this summer and saw Skara Brae, the Standings Stones, Ring, etc and my message to the tourists of the world is: don't bother, there's nothing to see.
		I was "blown away" as the kids say when I first saw the Ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae, etc. To think that I walked among stone "houses",etc. that were older than the Pyramids was something that I'll not forget.
	heritage.scotsman.com /places.cfm?id=1626742006 (1932 words)

	Skara Brae
		Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located in the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of mainland Orkney (off northern Scotland).
		Until 1850, Skara Brae lay under the sand dunes behind the bay.
		Rough seas and high winds in that year stripped away the grass, revealing several houses, while in 1924 the remainder was uncovered as a result of similar weather.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/s/sk/skara_brae.html (443 words)

	AMERICAblog.com - Comments
		I feel that albinochimpz skepticism is rooted in such ideology, possibly on an unconscious level.
		Scara Brae is older than Stonehenge and more interesing.
		My grandfather grew up on Westray (Island) where a Standing Stone was outside the back door.
	www.haloscan.com /comments.php?user=katsiva&comment=117021175495934317 (1725 words)

	Reviews
		This was the world premiere of a piece which will live, and I am glad that it is to be included in the second CD which the group will record shortly.
		For encore, Gareth Brady sent us home with unclouded high spirits, Scara Brae a real winner.
		Quintessence's first CD, made for the Classical Record Company shortly after I heard them the other side of the River Thames, includes Hindemith's Kleine kammermusik and Tansy Davies's Pinnacles which they had commissioned, a very different three movement wind quintet by a composer increasingly prominent on the British new music scene.
	www.musicalpointers.co.uk /reviews/liveevents/q.html (393 words)

	QI Talk Forum \| View topic - What are you reading today?
		I notice another person (Mike Smylie) has published a book called Herring: a History of the Silver Darlings, which I presume is along the lines of Cod, but oilier.
		I loved Scara Brae, but didn't have nearly long enough to spend there - we were on a day trip and only had about an hour - so I missed the rude Viking graffiti, dammit.
		I found Scara Brae a gobsmackingly wonderful place.
	www.qi.com /talk/viewtopic.php?p=1756 (1322 words)

	lauren35 - @ 20six.co.uk
		Churchill had some of the entrances to Scapa Flow blocked up and the tides are now totally unpredictable.
		We visited the 5000 year old village of Scara Brae, uncovered by a violent storm at the beginning of the 20
		It was packed with American tourists who had arrived that day in Kirkwall (the capital) on a cruise ship.
	www.20six.co.uk /lauren35/cat/52764/0/Slipping_the_moorings (1859 words)

	Scottish Highlands, Islands and Cities - 13 Day Extended Luxury Sightseeing Coach Tour of Scotland
		Jedburgh * Edinburgh * St. Andrews * Glamis Castle * Speyside * Culloden * Dunrobin Castle * Orkney Islands * John O'Groats * South Ronaldsay * Scara Brae * Ullapool * Isle of Skye * Kyle of Lochalsh * Glencoe * Iona * Culzean Castle * Alloway
		We board a ferry today from John O'Groats to South Ronaldsay where we overlook Scapa Flow and visit the Italian Chapel.
		We move on to Scara Brae to see the remains of a Neolithic village, before passing the pre-history Ring of Brodgar to Viking Kirkwall.
	www.bestvaluetours.co.uk /scotland-highlands-sightseeing-tour.tlf.htm (1409 words)

	Fisheries Research Services
		Fish and shellfish remains found at archeological sites such as Scara Brae, Orkney provide evidence that our coastal dwelling ancestors made use of aquatic resources as a source of food.
		Communities reliant on the sea grew up particularly in areas where natural inlets and bays provided shelter.
		Two species have emerged as especially significant to the Scottish inshore fleet, these are Nephrops, now the most valuable fishery landing around 20,000 tonnes annually into Scotland, and scallops which support a specialist dredge fishing fleet.
	www.marlab.ac.uk /Delivery/standaloneCM.aspx?contentid=197 (1325 words)

	Orkney travel, touring Orkney standing stones Stenness Scara Brae
		See Skara Brae the Stoneage village, Scapa Flow, Stromness, Kirkwall, Highland Park Distillery, Churchill Barriers, Ring of Brodgar, Standing Stones of Stenness and the Italian Chapel.
		Extras are your lunch and entrance fees to Skara Brae.
		See Skara Brae, The Churchill Barriers, Scapa Flow, Ring of Brodgar, The Standing Stones of Stenness, Stromness, the Italian Chapel and Kirkwall with an opportunity to see Kirkwall's magnificent 12th century cathedral.
	www.highlandescapehotels.com /activities/orkney.asp (258 words)

	Walking Holidays, Hiking Vacations and Tours in Scotland — Wilderness Scotland
		The Outer Hebrides and Skye is a great trip for people seeking a guided hiking vacation which combines walking in Scotland with a feel for its history and heritage.
		Our guided walking holiday to the Orkney Islands also does this, visiting famous sites such as Scara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar as well as enjoying guided hikes to the Old Man of Hoy and other areas.
		Our guided hiking vacation to Kintail and Torridon is suitable for people who enjoy tough hiking and takes in routes such as the famous Five Sisters of Kintail.
	www.wildernessscotland.com /browse-1-1-0 (790 words)

	Stock Photo of Skara Brae on myLoupe.com - Stock Photography
		Stock Photo of Skara Brae on myLoupe.com - Stock Photography
		To inquire if this image is available in a larger file size
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	Orkney Scara Brae Neolithic Box - Shetland Food Company Ltd
		This unusual produce box provides a taste of the diet of what the villagers of Skara Brae - Orkneys neolithic stone age village situated in Orkney on the shores of Skaill.
		The people of Skara Brae bred their own cows and sheep and grew their own cereals.
		Shellfish was also harvested which was then stored in custom built stone tanks within their house.
	www.shetlandfood.com /site/product.cfm?id=95C6A619-F44B-7ECC-82DE9873E2F3BE74 (173 words)

	History Channel Classroom:
		One of the most important archeological finds in Britain is the village of Skara Brae.
		Historians believe that Skara Brae was not an isolated village, that it was part of a larger network or community.
		Compare your society’s death or burial rituals with the death and burial rituals of the Orcadians of Scara Brae.
	www.history.com /classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.1264.html (427 words)

	Cycling In Scotland - (E) Orkney - West Mainland
		On the way to Scara Brae you pass the Ring of Brodgar which has some similarity to Stonehenge in England.
		Before reaching Scara Brae you pass a minor road leading to Yesnaby.
		Skara Brae is one of the most remarkable things in Orkney.
	cycling.visitscotland.com /sitewide/imported_routes/orkney_west (684 words)

	‘MEMORIES’ OF MALTA
		The spirals in the mound at Newgrange in Ireland are reflected in the limestone at the Maltese temple of Tarxien.
		The round shapes of the walls and little altars at the lovely lyrical temple of Mnajdra are echoed in the Neolithic remains called Scara Brae in the Orkney Islands at the northern tip of Scotland.
		In the outer ramparts of the temple known as Ggantija on the sister island of Gozo I could see a Stonehenge with the spaces between the standing stones filled in.
	www.shamanicjourneys.com /articles/memoriesofmalta.html (475 words)

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