Pupils from Stenness Community School in Orkney visited Skara Brae to learn about its history. Watch below to find out what they discovered. The dresser would have been the first thing you would ...

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.

Dr Mairi Davies from Historic Environment Scotland explained that despite ... who gets an acknowledgement in Prof Childe's monograph about Skara Brae. A second is believed to be Margaret Mitchell ...

Before its discovery, Skara Brae was nothing more than a sandy, grassy mound in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland.

Its design references Skara Brae, Orkney's famously well-preserved ... The hospital is small compared to most in Scotland, just 49 beds, but it is the country's first built to a net-zero standard ...

Neolithic means the "new stone age" and some of Scotland's best-known sites from that time are found in Orkney. They include standing stones, Skara Brae settlement and Maeshowe chambered tomb.

and examples have been found in Skara Brae, across Aberdeenshire, and on the islands of Iona, Skye, Harris, Uist, Lewis, Arran as well as the South of Scotland in Hawick and Wigtownshire.

A stunning island roughly 10 miles off the north coast of Scotland has been named one of the world’s most beautiful places to ...