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	AllRefer.com - Skara Brae (Archaeology, General) - Encyclopedia
		Skara Brae[skAr´u brA] Pronunciation Key, Stone Age village, on Mainland in the Orkney Islands, N Scotland.
		B.C., the village was preserved under a sand dune until uncovered by a storm in 1851.
		Skara Brae is considered an outstanding preserved Stone Age village.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SkaraBra.html (174 words)

	Skara Brae - The Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement
		Skara Brae - The Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement
		In its lifetime Skara Brae became embedded in its own rubbish and this, together with the encroaching sand dunes, meant that 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/index.html (717 words)

	Skara Brae History
		She swore a personal quest to end the plague and with the aid of Shamino the Ranger, traveled to Skara Brae and violated the quarantine to reach the island.
		Although Skara Brae did not join in the military alliance against the pirates in 211 A.C., many of the ships sailed by Britain and Trinsic were purchased from Skara Brae.
		Despite the damage suffered, the Skara Brae council voted against a permanent garrison force in the region, not wishing to disrupt the tranquillity of their lives.
	www.councilofnine.org /rp/sbhistory.html (1058 words)

	Encyclopedia: Skara Brae
		SKARA BRAE IS ALSO TH E NAME GIVEN TO A WORLD FAMOUS IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC BAND FROM RANAFAST CO.DONEGAL, IRELAND.
		On average, the houses measure 40 square metres in size with a large square room containing a large hearth which would have been used for heating and cooking.
		As few trees grow on the island, the people of Skara Brae used driftwood and whalebone, with turf thatch, to roof their dwellings.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Skara-Brae (1411 words)

	Skara Brae - The Discovery and Excavation of Orkney's finest Neolithic Settlement
		Buried into the southern shoreline of Sandwick's Bay o' Skaill is the Neolithic village of Skara Brae - one of Orkney's most visited ancient sites, and rightly regarded as one of the most remarkable monuments in Europe.
		Today Skerrabra - or Skara Brae as it has become known - is made up of eight dwellings, linked together by a series of low alleyways.
		The name "Skara Brae" is a modern corruption of the original name, Skerrabra - the name the site was known as until the 1950s.
	www.orkneyjar.com /history/skarabrae (717 words)

	BBC - History - Scottish History
		One of the most remarkable discoveries in modern archaeology: in 1850 a violent storm ravaged the Bay of Skaill in the Orkney Isles to the north-east of mainland Scotland, revealing the Neolithic village of Skara Brae buried beneath the sand dunes.
		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 provide insulation and protection from the elements.
		Such a tightly knit and communal village life was unusual in these early farming communities, individual farmsteads being preferred, but Skara Brae seems to have been a very close community with little room for non-conformists.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/scottishhistory/ancient/features_ancient_skarabrae.shtml (547 words)

	Skara Brae - Ancient Settlement - Ancient Sites Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Not all of the houses on display at Skara Brae are from the same period.
		Skara Brae has been described as the Pompeii of the North and the place does give you that feeling of the inhabitants having only just left the day before.
		Skara Brae is cared for by Historic Scotland.
	www.henge.org.uk /orkney/skara.html (769 words)

	The Neolithic Village at Skara Brae
		This house has a unique structure amongst the houses of Skara Brae - the walls are thicker as it was free standing, and there is no hearth, no dresser, no beds, no boxes.
		The neolithic village of Skara Brae lies on the shore of the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of Orkney's Mainland.
		There is evidence of habitation before the construction of the first stone houses which are still visible, as well as evidence that some houses were dismantled and others built during the course of the occupation of the village.
	www.ancient-scotland.co.uk /skarabrae1.html (391 words)

	Skara Brae B&B a Scottish retreat on the north shore of Lake Superior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Skara Brae B&B a Scottish retreat on the north shore of Lake Superior
		Skara Brae Scottish Bed and Breakfast is perched on a bluff overlooking Lake Superior, three miles east of Grand Marais, Minnesota.
		Skara Brae will refresh your spirit, nourish your soul and encourage you to enjoy all that the exquisite North Shore has to offer.
	www.skarabraebb.com (466 words)

	Skara Brae
		The settlement at Skara Brae occurred over a six hundred year period, from 3100 BCE to 2500 BCE.
		But, it should be kept in mind, as Scarre points out, that the Latin word for hearth is ‘focus,’ and the hearths at Skara Brae were very likely the center of family life (104).
		During Gordon Childe’s excavations at Skara Brae in the 1920s, he noted that the bed to the right of the doorway was larger than the one on the left.
	lesanctuaire.dreamhost.com /nonfiction/skara_brae.htm (1046 words)

	Neolithic Village Skara Brae Orkney, Scotland - UK Hisotory
		The Bay of Skaill on the Orkney Mainland had eroded back from the sea for thousands of years, but one night in 1850 the sandy dunes of the bay were to be pounded by a huge storm.
		It is obvious that ‘Skara Braes’ occupants were skilled craftsmen working with bone and stone, as much of their pottery, tools and weapons were richly decorated.
		‘Skara Brae’ is under constant threat from the sea as the dunes around the Bay of Skail are constantly eroded.
	www.scotshistoryonline.co.uk /scara.html (384 words)

	Thin Section & Micromorphology Labs :: the University of Stirling, Scotland.
		Characterising midden in Neolithic settlement construction: an assessment from Skara Brae, Orkney.
		Settlement waste materials - midden - as integral to Neolithic domestic settlement construction in Orkney was first recognised during early excavations of Skara Brae (Childe, 1931a; 1931b).
		Ten thin sections were manufactured from these samples, representing earlier and later phases of Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae.
	www.thin.stir.ac.uk /skarabrae.htm (221 words)

	Skara Brae Prehistoric Village on AboutBritain.com
		Visit the 5000 year old village of Skara Brae and see what life was like in the Stone Age.
		At Skara Brae you can see houses that were built before the Pyramids and Stonehenge, complete with furniture, hearths and drains.
		These are the questions that have fascinated visitors to Skara Brae since it was uncovered by a storm in 1850.
	www.aboutbritain.com /SkaraBrae.htm (386 words)

	Megaliths.SkaraBrae.O.Paleologos
		Located in the Orkneys islands, archipelago in the North-West of Scotland, Skara Brae is a whole village of 10 houses, 5000 to 3500 years old, remained intact under the sand which covered it, until 1850 when a storm allowed its discovery.
		The 10 houses of Skara Brae are joint or separated by walls of stones and connected between them by paved streets, there are also drains for water, gates of stone and even a small part which one could describe as bathroom!
		It seems that the inhabitants were constrained to leave the place precipitately as suggest a pearlnecklace left in a corridor or bones partially eaten close to a bed...
	www.paleologos.com /skara.htm (388 words)

	UO Stratics - BNN Archives - Talking parrot in Skara Brae! - Pacific - January 22nd 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Skara Brae, the home of the Ranger's guild, was recently visited by a strange individual indeed.
		The citizens of Skara Brae first spotted Ale when he rushed - - flew, rather, to the Skara Brae bank.
		After several minutes, a good search party had been aquired ; they began their search on the mainland portion of Skara Brae, at the nearby 'tavern,' Joh's Creb Sheck.
	uo.stratics.com /secrets/tc/tc_185.shtml (326 words)

	Skara Brae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The dwellings contain a number of stone-built pieces of furniture, including cupboards, dressers, seats, and box beds.
		Unusually, no Maeshowe-type tombs have been found on Rousay and although there are a large number of Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairns, these were built by Unstan ware people.
		This page was last modified 23:43, 28 January 2006.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Skara_Brae (610 words)

	Stones of Scotland - Skara Brae settlement
		Skara Brae's occupants were farmers who bred cows and sheep and grew cereals, but who also hunted red deer and fished.
		They were skilled craftsmen, working bone and stone, and making pottery; many of the tools, weapons and vessels were richly decorated.
		The village was planned as a cluster of sub-rectangular huts, with interconnecting passages.
	www.stonepages.com /scotland/skarabrae.html (286 words)

	Skara Brae: The Story of a Prehistoric Village : Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Skara Brae is quite a good book given its age range (I´d place it at 4-5); Dunrae does an excellent job of balancing what we know with what he surmises, and most importantly includes a small piece at the beginning explaining the difference between the two.
		It might be a bit beyond the target audience, but it´s sure to please the parents reading the book with their children.
		As for the book itself, it´s about, well, Skara Brae, the prehistoric fishing village on the coast of one of Scotland´s Orkney Islands, from the time the original settlers came till the time of the second discovery of the ruins.
	www.pagenation.com /an/0823405834.html (289 words)

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		Upon moving to Satellite Beach, Florida in 1994 from Downingtown, Pennsylvania, I have tried to maintain the high standards of my mentor, friend, and breeder Carol Gouger of Cedarhope Shelties in Mohnton, PA. Most of you know of Carol and her lovely line of AOAC's and her gorgeous Red Sables.
		As proud owners of Skara Brae Shelties, our goals are to continue the quality and to improve the Breed by staying to Classic Headpieces, Compact Bodies and Lovely Temperaments so typical of our proud Banchory Heritage.
		Carol's expertise with this proud line still carries on at Cedarhope through "Deep Purple", "Classic Image", "Banchory Beau", "Summer Thunder", etc., all of whom are CHAMPIONS and have done much to uphold the true standard of our breed.
	www.skarabrae.com (235 words)

	Skara Brae: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com
		Skara Brae: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
		Skara Brae: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
		Skara Brae [+] is a vocal quartet that features Michael O Dhomhnaill and his sisters Triona and Mairead Ni Dhomhnaill [+] of Rann na Feirste in Donegal and Daithi Sproule [+] from Derry city.
	music.com /group/skara_brae/1 (115 words)

	Skara Brae & Skaill House near Stromness - Orkney & Shetland Islands - UK Attraction
		The Neolithic village of Skara Brae is one of Orkney’s most visited sites and rightly regarded as one of the most remarkable monuments in Europe.
		It was inhabited between 3200 BC and 2200 BC, comprising of eight dwellings (including Skaill House) linked together by alleyways.
		Self-catering accommodation near to Skara Brae & Skaill House
	www.ukattraction.com /orkney+shetland/skara-brae.htm (240 words)

	Accommodation Collingwood, Golden Bay, Nelson, New Zealand. Bed and Breakfast and motel, Skara Brae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Welcome to Skara Brae, the original police residence in Collingwood built in 1908, which has been tastefully renovated over the years.
		Skara Brae Garden Motel and Bed and Breakfast is a member of Latitude Nelson's web site.
		Copyright © 2000 - 2003 Skara Brae Garden Motel - All rights reserved.
	www.accommodationcollingwood.co.nz (144 words)

	Orkney Travel & Sightseeing - The Internet Guide to Scotland
		Skara Brae - Ring of Brodgar - Stones of Stenness - Maes Howe - Brough of Birsay - Broch of Gurness - Rennibister Earth House - Onstan cairn
		Situated close to the prehistoric village of Skara Brae, this 17th-century house has been refurbished and is now open to the public.
		There is a joint ticket arrangement with Skara Brae.
	www.scotland-info.co.uk /orkney.htm (3953 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)

	skara brae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	Scottish Highlands Explorer: Orkney Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		An archipelago of 70 islands off the north coast of Scotland, Orkney's most amazing feature is the number of prehistoric sites which can be found there.
		As well as Britains oldest standing houses - 5500 years old on the island of Papa Westray - Orkney has stone circles, burial mounds, brochs and best of all the 5000 year old village at Skara Brae, preserved under a sand dune until 1850, when a violent storm exposed it.
		The islands are home to thousands of seabirds which attract bird watchers every year, and sports divers come to investigate the wrecks of the German fleet which was scuttled in Scapa Flow in 1919.
	www.cali.co.uk /HIGHEXP/Orknisle.htm (217 words)

	Welcome to the Community of Skara Brae
		"On a western isle just off the coast of Spiritwood lies the quiet retreat of Skara Brae.
		Long known as a home for the Rangers, a friendly people who strive to better the lives of others
		The image of Skara Brae is from Telivar's Mysterious Sosaria
	skarabrae.netfirms.com (152 words)

	Stones of Stenness, Standing Stones - Megalithic Mysteries
		This style of pottery and the radiocarbon dating suggests a date of 3000BC.
		This is the same period as the Skara Brae coastal settlement.
		Nearby is the Watch Stone, and once the Stone of Odin stood nearby as well.
	easyweb.easynet.co.uk /%7Eaburnham/scot/sten.htm (285 words)

	Skara Brae Dating (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.maxidate.com /datingresourcesuk3/Skara-Brae-Dating.html (549 words)

	Maes Howe chambered cairn, Orkney - Stones of Wonder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Maeshowe was broken into from the top by a party of Vikings in the 12th century, and they left over twenty sets of runic inscriptions carved on the walls of the chamber to record their exploits, as well as a carved lion and a serpent.
		Maeshowe has not been dated directly, but by association with the stone circle at Stenness nearby, and with the well known settlement site of Skara Brae on the west coast it is thought to have been erected about 3000BC.
		Our interest in the mound lies in the orientation of the passage.
	www.stonesofwonder.com /maeshowe.htm (684 words)

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