Skara Brae
Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill in the parish of Sandwick, on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruin
- Description: Neolithic archaeological site in Scotland
- Also known as: “Skara Brae, settlement, mounds and other remains”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Skaill House and Loch of Skaill.
Skaill House
Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skaill House is a historic manor house in Sandwick parish on Mainland, the largest of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. The house overlooks the Neolithic site, Skara Brae, and the Bay of Skaill. Skaill House is situated 2,700 feet east of Skara Brae.
Loch of Skaill
Photo: John Ireland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Loch of Skaill is a small somewhat triangular, freshwater loch in the parish of Sandwick, Orkney on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It lies 0.5 mi south east of the Bay of Skaill close to Skaill House and the World Heritage neolithic site Skara Brae. Loch of Skaill is situated 1 mile southeast of Skara Brae.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yesnaby and Twatt.
Yesnaby
Locality
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Yesnaby is a historic township in Sandwick, on the west coast of Orkney Mainland, Scotland, south of Skara Brae. It is renowned for its spectacular Old Red Sandstone coastal cliff scenery which includes sea stacks, blowholes, geos and frequently boiling seas. Yesnaby is situated 2 miles south of Skara Brae.
Twatt
Village
Photo: J M Briscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Twatt is a settlement in the parish of Birsay on the Mainland of Orkney, Scotland. It was previously the location of RNAS Twatt, from 1940–1949. Twatt is situated at the junction of the A986 and the A967. Twatt is situated 4½ miles northeast of Skara Brae.
Dounby
Village
Photo: Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dounby is a village on Mainland in Orkney, in the north of Scotland. Dounby village is situated at the crossroads of what are now the A986 and B9057, and has grown close to the meeting point of the three parishes of Sandwick, Birsay and Harray. Dounby is situated 4½ miles east of Skara Brae.
Skara Brae
- Categories: archaeological site, Neolithic settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Skara Brae” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Skara Brae”
- Arabic: “سكارا براي”
- Armenian: “Սկարա Բրեյ”
- Asturian: “Skara Brae”
- Basque: “Skara Brae”
- Bulgarian: “Скара Брей”
- Catalan: “Skara Brae”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉佈雷遺跡”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉坡”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉山坡”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉布雷新石器时代遗迹”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉布雷遺跡”
- Czech: “Skara Brae”
- Danish: “Skara Brae”
- Dutch: “Skara Brae”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سكارا براى”
- Esperanto: “Skara Brae”
- Finnish: “Skara Brae”
- French: “Skara Brae”
- Galician: “Skara Brae”
- German: “Skara Brae”
- Greek: “Skara Brae”
- Greek: “Νεολιθικός Οικισμός Skara Brae”
- Greek: “Σκάρα Μπράε”
- Greek: “Σκάρα Μπρε”
- Hebrew: “סקארה ברי”
- Hungarian: “Skara Brae”
- Indonesian: “Skara Brae”
- Irish: “Skara Brae”
- Italian: “Skara Brae”
- Japanese: “スカラ・ブラエ”
- Japanese: “スカラ・ブレイ”
- Korean: “스캐러 브레이”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Skara Brae”
- Lithuanian: “Skara Brėjus”
- Northern Frisian: “Skara Brae”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skara Brae”
- Norwegian: “Skara Brae”
- Persian: “سکارا برای”
- Polish: “Skara Brae”
- Portuguese: “Skara Brae”
- Russian: “Скара-Брей”
- Russian: “Скара-Брэй”
- Scots: “Skara Brae”
- Serbian: “Скара Бре”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Skara Brae”
- Sinhala: “ස්කාරා බරායි”
- Sinhala: “ස්කාරා බ්රෙයි”
- Slovak: “Skara Brae”
- Slovenian: “Skara Brae”
- Spanish: “Skara Brae”
- Swedish: “Skara Brae”
- Turkish: “Skara Brae”
- Ukrainian: “Скара-Брей”
- Waray (Philippines): “Skara Brae”
- Welsh: “Skara Brae”
- Western Panjabi: “سکارا برای”
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