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🏛️ Skara Brae

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🏛️ Skara Brae
Neolithic settlement on Orkney Mainland, Scotland


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UNESCOUNESCO World Heritage Site

📌 Fast Facts
  • Location: Bay of Skail, Orkney Mainland, Scotland
  • Period: Neolithic, circa 3100–2500 BCE
  • Status: Excavated, preserved in situ, open year-round
  • UNESCO inscription: 1999

Skara Brae is a Neolithic village settlement on the west coast of Orkney Mainland that consists of eight ...

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