Unique Stone-Age Village Discovered in the Orkneys
British Official Wireless.
Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Friday. A stone-age village, complete with streets and houses, has been discovered near the Bay of Skaill, on the Mainland in the Orkneys during excavations made there. Professor Gordon Childs, of Edinburgh University, who has helped in ■be work, describes the discovery as eeing unique in Eastern Europe. huts so far have been unearthed,
with paved floors, stone shelves, and cells, where the Piets of the early Christian period lived. The huts were roofed over with great stone slabs. They are not more than four feet high, but the skeleton of a woman sft 6in in height has been discovered, together with cooking utensils and other primitive implements. Traces of the village were first revealed during a heavy storm.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 9
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