1. Skarabrea!

2. Seven of the houses have stone dressers, beds and seats.
Click to add textSkara Brae, on the southern shore of Sandwick, Orkney, was a late Neolithic settlement that was inhabited between 3200 and 2200 BC.
Eight prehistoric houses, connected by low covered passageways, have survived. The village was revealed by a winter storm in A series of archaeological excavations uncovered the Neolithic village.
Seven of the houses have stone dressers, beds and seats.
Skara Brae
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Skara Brae, on the southern shore of Sandwick, Orkney, was a late Neolithic settlement that was inhabited between 3200 and 2200 BC.

3. Eight prehistoric houses, connected by low covered passageways, have survived. The village was revealed by a winter storm in A series of archaeological excavations uncovered the Neolithic village.

4. They found the Orkneys an ideal place to live
They found the Orkneys an ideal place to live. There were gently rolling hills, open grasslands for their sheep and cattle, and wide, sand-fringed bays. The islands had no predatory animals that would attack their livestock. It was a good area to settle. Orkney was a strange place to these early settlers. They were accustomed to trees and forests. In Orkney there were far fewer trees. text

5. Skara Brae was an early farming village on an island off northern Scotland. Shortly before 2400 B.C. a sudden storm covered the village in sand. It remained covered for more than 4,200 years. Then, in A.D. 1850, a powerful windstorm stripped the sand from the dunes and uncovered the stone walls of the village.