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Skara Brae

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Jan 20, 2025 11:00 PM — History

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Skara Brae is a stone-built Neolithic settlement located on the west coast of Mainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago. Comprised of eight clustered houses, the village was occupied from roughly 3180 to 2500 BC.

500 km

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/80606012

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
59.0487348046, -3.34170352507

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Skara Brae (4000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- location of Skara Brae (4000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Skara Brae (English, modern)

Skara Brae makes connections with:

Skara Brae connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)

Skara Brae receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Related:

Wikidata Q816437: Skara Brae

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Skara Brae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/80606012> [accessed: 26 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/80606012 |title=Places: 80606012 (Skara Brae) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 4:19 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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