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The eponymous Skaill knife was a commonly used tool in Skara Brae; it consists of a large stone flake, with a sharp edge used for cutting, knocked off a sandstone cobble. [46] This neolithic tool is named after Skara Brae's location in the Bay of Skaill on Orkney. [47] Skaill knives have been found throughout Orkney and Shetland.
Carved stone balls are petrospheres dated from the late Neolithic, to possibly as late as the Iron Age, mainly found in Scotland, but also elsewhere in Britain and Ireland. They are usually round and rarely oval, and of fairly uniform size at around 2 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches or 7 cm across, with anything between 3 and 160 protruding knobs on the surface.
Bay of Skaill is the location of the famous Neolithic settlement, Skara Brae, and a large residence, Skaill House, the property of the laird on whose estate Skara Brae was discovered. Skaill House has connections with Captain James Cook .
Excavations at Skara Brae begin under V. Gordon Childe (completed in 1930). [1] Excavations at Tepe Gawra begin by an American team under Ephraim Avigdor Speiser. Pločnik archaeological site discovered in southern Serbia, with findings of the Vinca culture (5500 BC). Excavations begin at Garðar Cathedral Ruins.
A Pictish cemetery was found in the grounds of Skaill House (adjacent to Skara Brae) in 1996. [109] Christianity probably arrived in Orkney in the 6th century and organised church authority emerged in the 8th century.
c. 3100–2600 BC – Neolithic settlement at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, is inhabited. Construction in England of the Sweet Track, the world's first known engineered roadway. Garth tsunami in the Northern Isles. c. 3100 BC – The earliest phase of the Stonehenge monument (a circular earth bank and ditch).
Skara Brae on the Mainland of Orkney also dates from this era, occupied from about 3100 to 2500 BCE and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village. [4] There are also large numbers of chambered tombs and cairns from this period. Many different types have been identified, but they can be roughly grouped into passage graves, gallery graves and ...
This settlement was occupied from about 3000 BC to 2500 BC. Pottery found here is of the grooved ware style which is found across Britain as far away as Wessex. About 6 miles (10 km) from Skara Brae, grooved ware pottery was found at the Standing Stones of Stenness (originally a circle) which lie centrally in a close group of three major monuments.