Skara Brae and the Neolithic heart of Orkney

On Orkney's west coast a farming community built a cluster of stone houses with dressers, box beds and hearths, linked by covered passages, which a storm uncovered in 1850. A few miles inland, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of Stenness, the Maeshowe tomb and the Ness of Brodgar excavations show the islands were a ceremonial centre for Neolithic Britain.