Skara Brae: A Neolithic Village in Orkney

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Jenny has just returned from a holiday to Orkney and shares her experiences of visiting Skara Brae, a beautifully preserved stone age village. Annie uncovers the early archaeology of the site, and Jenny imagines what the lives of people were like 5000 years ago. They find a light-hearted ghost neolithic ghost story and wonder about the beliefs and superstitions of our ancient ancestors. Jenny and Annie highlight the imminent risk to Skara Brae from the climate crisis, and the fears that this incredible stone age settlement could be lost to coastal erosion. We used the following articles for researching this episode: Notice of Ruins of Ancient Dwellings at Skara, Bay of Skaill, in the Parish of Sandwich, Orkney, recently excavated by George Petrie; Final Report on the Operations at Skara Brae with a Report on Selected Animal Bones and a Report on Human Remains by Vere Gordon Childe; Storm and Stone- Accidental Archaeology at Skara Brae in Orkney by Virginia Zimmerman. Information about the storms of 1850 came from the John O’ Groat Journal published in that year. For visiting Skara Brae please check details on the Historic Environment Scotland website. Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, a podcast where we examine history and folklore.
0:15.9	I'm Annie, your ancient archivist.
0:18.5	And I'm Jenny, your Neolithic artefact. And I feel very, very far away from
0:23.3	you, Annie, far back in time and also in location-wise. Yes, I am in a little cupboard in Aberdeen because
0:32.0	I'm supporting our ballad singer on his ever-going brain cancer journey and you're back in our wonderful house
0:39.6	in Inverness in a much more spacious recording space than me and that's something I never thought
0:45.5	I'd call our studio Annie spacious you've somehow managed to downsize from the smallest studio
0:52.0	possible it's like the lion the witch and the wardrobe, except...
0:57.5	It's just a witch in there?
1:01.8	So true.
1:03.8	However, this is really exciting because we've got a brand new season of Stories of Scotland.
1:09.5	Yay!
1:10.0	And we're going to be uncovering and exploring heritage and legends connected to a theme
1:15.5	of the north.
1:17.8	The north.
1:18.9	Oh, Annie.
1:19.6	I don't know.
1:20.1	North is all relative.
1:21.3	You know, if you're in Glasgow, then Inverness is north.
1:24.1	If you're in Inverness, then Wick is north.
1:26.2	If you're in the South Pole, everything is north if you're in the South Pole everything is
1:27.9	north this is a podcast series on everywhere that's a lie it's the north of Scotland but let's kick
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