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height of 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 in), and the stone furniture is intact giving a vivid impression of life in the house. Fireplaces, partition screens, beds and storage shelves are almost intact, and post holes were found indicating the roof structure.
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The farmstead consists of two adjacent rounded rectangular thick-walled stone buildings with very low doorways facing the
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The stone walls of the buildings are preserved and while the roof is missing, it was likely made of wood and
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Looking back through the low entrance doorway into the main house, a visitor's
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splits into thin slabs, offering a ready source of construction material.
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BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the similar houses in the settlement at
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which may be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe.
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Evidence from the middens shows that the inhabitants were keeping
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for species which must have been line caught using boats.
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/ˌnæpˌɒvˈhər/
Papa Westray
Orkney
Scotland
Neolithic
farmstead
Radiocarbon dating
3700
Skara Brae
Orkney Mainland
sea
midden
thatched
turfed
stone

knapsack

eaves
cattle
sheep
pigs
barley
wheat
shellfish
fishing
Unstan ware
chambered cairn
Balbridie

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