Skara Brae: Stone Age Houses With All Mod Cons

The Orkney Islands’ contribution to the “World of Stonehenge”

Image © Linda Acaster. Part of Neolithic family home at Skara Brae, Orkney. Firepit bottom centre, quern stones above, shelving unit. To left a box bed with shelving recesses.

Lying just north of the United Kingdom’s Scottish mainland, the archipelago of 70 islands which make up Orkney are as striking as any in more exotic locales. Swept by the warming waters of the North Atlantic Drift, they have always been a strategic hub, from the British fleets…