ORKNEY ISLANDS RUINS ILLUMINATE STONE AGE LIFE.(TRAVEL)

From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) | Date: May 4, 1997 | Copyright information

Byline: Harry Shattuck Houston Chronicle

The town, an assemblage of dwellings older than Stonehenge or the Egyptian pyramids, is small in size but enormous in significance.

Skara Brae lay buried for more than four millenniums beside the Bay of Skaill on the western tip of the Orkney ``Mainland'' in remote northern Scotland. The prehistoric village was uncovered during the mid-19th century, when a fierce storm stripped the grass from a high sand dune.

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