Barnhouse Settlement — Attraction in Scotland

A short walk from the standing stones. Very quiet, not many visitors for some reason. It's like a mini Skara Brae but free to visit and you can walk around inside what is left of the buildings and get a real.good feel for what they may have been like. Right next to the water and well maintained. We spent six hours here but wouldn't suggest you'd need more than ten minutes unless you have your own...

Greetings Space Cadets, By the south shore of the Harray loch, on a point of land called Antaness, around 150 metres to the north of the Standing Stones o' Stenness, are the remains of an Orcadian Stone Age settlement. Now known simply as the Barnhouse Settlement, only the reconstructed lower courses of a small section of the village's stonework are...

A short walk along a from the standing stones at Stenness. This ancient settlement is intriguing. Similar to the more famous Skara Brae, but no where near as busy. Well worth a look, the excavations are reasonably new (1984) and it does look as though there is more archeology to be uncovered. All very...