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One� of the well preserved houses at Skara Brae.This settlement was occupied from around 3000BC and abandoned about 2400BC when the inhabitants fled in a great hurry - perhaps due to a sandstorm.It was rediscovered after another storm in 1824.

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View of bay next to the Scara Brae site.

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