Consisting of the remains of ten houses, this is, for 10 points, what late Neolithic site on Mainland Orkney, the best preserved Stone Age site in Europe?
In The Megalithic Builders, Euan MacKie identified this site, as well as Durrington Walls, as home to a sacred elite due to no evidence of game animals and its fine pottery. That pottery, Grooved Ware, is shared by this site with sites like Rinyo on Rousay and differs from the contemporary Unstan Ware found at Knap of Howar. The smashing of stones produced this site's characteristic discoidal knife, which was named by Gordon Childe for the bay on which this site lies, the Skaill Knife. House 7 here is the only one associated with human burial and had a door which could be locked from without, but shared the characteristic thick midden-filled walls of the other houses here. Consisting of the remains of ten houses, this is, for 10 points, what late Neolithic site on Mainland Orkney, the best preserved Stone Age site in Europe?
In The Megalithic Builders, Euan MacKie identified this site, as well as Durrington Walls, as home to a sacred elite due to no evidence of game animals and its fine pottery.
{Skara Brae}