It was a little different 5,000 years ago. Image caption, One of the beds at Skara Brae, built from slabs of stone. They date back to somewhere between 3180 BCE and 2500 BCE Skara Brae is a ...

There are stone cupboards and beds and even stone shelves where precious objects were kept! Today, the homes at Skara Brae are open to the air, but they were probably covered with roofs of turf ...

But highly staged. She says: "Everybody on site is looking towards Gordon Childe", who led the excavation of Skara Brae in 1928 and 1929. The Neolithic village at the Bay of Skaill on the west ...

But despite Skara Brae’s immaculate preservation ... Each house has Stone Age furniture, including beds, a fireplace, and a ...

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 ...