Skara Brae /ˈskærə ˈbreɪ/ is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland...
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Skara Brae is a Neolithic settlement in Orkney, Scotland. Skara Brae may also refer to: Skara Brae (band), a traditional Irish music group from the 1970s...
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Skara Brae is an album of Irish traditional music by the group Skara Brae. Released by Gael Linn Records in 1971, the self-titled album contains "beautifully...
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Skara Brae were an Irish traditional music group from Kells, County Meath with origins in Ranafast (Rann na Feirste), County Donegal. The group consisted...
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Ultima (series) (redirect from Skara Brae (Ultima))
Ultima is a series of open world fantasy role-playing video games from Origin Systems, created by Richard Garriott. Electronic Arts has owned the brand...
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been estimated that the structure took 80,000 man-hours to construct. Skara Brae – a cluster of eight houses making up Northern Europe’s best-preserved...
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Scotland. She was a member of V. Gordon Childe's team of archaeologists at Skara Brae and Kindrochat, as well as the writer of some of the first guidebooks...
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threatened a small but harmonious country town called Skara Brae. Evil creatures oozed into Skara Brae and joined his shadow domain. Mangar froze the surrounding...
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Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (category Skara Brae (band) members)
the twentieth century. He is remembered for his innovative work with Skara Brae, the first group to record vocal harmonization in Irish language songs...
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and part of the "Heart of Neolithic Orkney", a group of sites including Skara Brae designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Maeshowe is one of the...
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focusing on the society of Neolithic Orkney by excavating the settlement of Skara Brae and the chambered tombs of Maeshowe and Quoyness. In these decades he...
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settlement Dapenkeng culture (Taiwan, 4000–3000 BC) Grooved ware people Skara Brae, et al. Erlitou culture Xia dynasty Ertebølle culture Hembury culture...
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the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The house overlooks the neolithic site, Skara Brae, and the Bay of Skaill. In 1977, the house was included in the List of...
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prowess of the builders. Euan MacKie suggested that the nearby village of Skara Brae might be the home of a privileged theocratic class of wise men who engaged...
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Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar and the Neolithic village of Skara Brae, together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement...
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Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill (category Skara Brae (band) members)
Dhomhnaill has worked with renowned traditional Irish groups such as Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, and Nightnoise. In February 2024 it was announced that...
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houses of Skara Brae, and the Barnhouse Settlement, from around 3000 BCE, along with a cell-like enclave in a number of houses, of Skara Brae, that it...
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3700 BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the similar houses in the settlement at Skara Brae on the Orkney Mainland. The farmstead consists of two adjacent rounded...
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people for being magic users, adventureres, or non-humans in the town of Skara Brae as witnessed by the initial player character, Melody the bard. She meets...
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famous Neolithic settlement, Skara Brae, and a large residence, Skaill House, the property of the laird on whose estate Skara Brae was discovered. Skaill House...
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Skara Brae, a Neolithic village in Orkney, Scotland The site dates from 3100 to 2500 BCE and due to a shortage of wood in Orkney, the people of Skara...
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the island of Papa Westray, which dates from 3500 BC. The village of Skara Brae, Europe's best-preserved Neolithic settlement, is believed to have been...
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Bookan, a third henge, with associated mounds. The Neolithic village at Skara Brae lies a few kilometres away, as does the chambered cairn at Unstan. More...
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"river-bank". Brae Bay, Nunavut, Canada Brae Fell, a fell in the English Lake District Brae field, a Scottish oil field in the North Sea Skara Brae, a Neolithic...
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similarities to those of the early phase of the better-known settlement at Skara Brae in that they have central hearths, beds built against the walls and stone...
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first villages around 6,000 years ago. The well-preserved village of Skara Brae on the mainland of Orkney dates from this period. Neolithic habitation...
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located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) from the Lerwick port centre. Lerwick Scalloway Brae Sandwick Aith Mid Yell Baltasound Symbister Orkney→ There are only three...
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1126/science.1213317. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 22158814. S2CID 11063722. "Skara Brae – The Furniture". orkneyjar.com. Archived from the original on 19 August...
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three flakes of pitchstone thought to have come from the Isle of Arran. Skara Brae consists of ten clustered houses and is northern Europe's most complete...
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macehead, England, c. 2900 BC Macehead from Knowth Inscribed symbols from Skara Brae Neolithic house reconstruction at Butser Farm Neolithic house, 3800 BC...
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