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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.
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.
The group disbanded in 1972. Dáithi Sproule went on to perform with numerous musicians before joining Irish supergroup Altan in 1992. [4] Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill later co-founded the influential Bothy Band in 1974, with flute player Matt Molloy, a succession of renowned fiddlers Paddy Glackin, Tommy Peoples, and Kevin Burke, piper Paddy Keenan, and Dónal Lunny.
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 consists of ten clustered houses and is northern Europe's most complete Neolithic village. Occupied between 3100–2500 BC the houses are similar to those at Barnhouse, but they are linked by common passages and were built into a large midden containing ash, bones, shells, stone and organic waste.
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.
Skara Brae is a Neolithic settlement in Orkney, Scotland. Skara Brae may also refer to: Skara Brae (band), a traditional Irish music group from the 1970s Skara Brae (album), 1971; Skara Brae, a town in the Ultima computer role-playing game series; Skara Brae, the main settlement in The Bard's Tale computer role-playing game series