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Skara Brae
Sandwick
Orkney
KW16 3LR

National Grid reference: HY 231 188

Please be aware we're currently experiencing some technical difficulties with our telephone lines at Skara Brae. You can email skarabrae.vo@hes.scot with any questions.

Skara Brae telephone: 01856 841 815
Café telephone: 01856 841 886

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Opening times

1 Nov to 31 Mar:
Daily, 10am to 4pm 

Advance booking required.

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Facilities

Daffodils along a stone wall leading to the ruins of Earl

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Earl's Palace, Birsay
Remains of a Norse building at the Brough of Birsay.

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Brough of Birsay
A grassy cairn with an open entrance, surrounded by a fence

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Unstan Chambered Cairn
Seven tall standing stones, part of the Ring of Brodgar

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Ring of Brodgar Stone Circle and Henge
Four of the standing stones at Stenness in the evening

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Stones of Stenness Circle and Henge
A general exterior view of Maeshowe Chambered Cairn.

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Maeshowe Chambered Cairn
A small grass-covered house built over a small stream

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Click Mill
A very large block of sandstone into which a Neolithic burial chamber has been cut

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Dwarfie Stane
The well preserved Midhowe Broch next to a beach and the sea

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Midhowe Broch
A general view of the Broch of Gurness and Eynhallow Sound.

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Broch of Gurness
The interior of Rennibister earth house. The stone ceiling is held up by a wooden beam.

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Rennibister Earth House
A view of the inside of an earth house

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Grain Earth House
A general view of the Links of Noltland archaeological site.

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Links of Noltland
Small stone houses by the sea

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Knap of Howar
The remaining walls of the broch form a half circle and are about three metres high.

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Carn Liath Broch
A picturesque Highland landscape with a ruined broch beside a stream

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Dun Dornaigil Broch

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