STONE AGE VILLAGE FOUND
UNIQUE EUROPEAN DISCOVERY. Telegraph—Press Ami.—Copyright. Rugby, Aug. 31. A stone age village complete with streets and houses has been discovered near the Bay of Skaill on mainland in the Orkneys during excavations made by the Office of Works. Professor Gordon Childe, of Edinburgh University, who has helped in the work, describes the discovery as being unique in Europe. Six huts have so far been unearthed, with paved floors, stone shelves, and cells where the Picts of the early Christian period lived. The huts, roofed over with great stone slabs, are not more than four feet high, but the skeleton of a woman sft Oin in height has been discovered, together with cooking utensils and other primitive implements.
Traces of the village were firs’, revealed during a heavy storm.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 September 1928, Page 4
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