INSIDE EUROPE'S OLDEST STONE HOUSE! Orkney's Knap Of Howar was occupied 6,000 years ago (29.7.2024) скачать в хорошем качестве

INSIDE EUROPE'S OLDEST STONE HOUSE! Orkney's Knap Of Howar was occupied 6,000 years ago (29.7.2024)

The Knap of Howar on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney, Scotland is a Neolithic farmstead, which may be the oldest preserved stone house in northern Europe. Radiocarbon dating shows that it was occupied from 3700 BC to 2800 BC, earlier than the similar houses in the settlement at Skara Brae on the Orkney Mainland. Unlike Skara Brae, the Knap Of Howar is unmonitored and has no access charge. Visitors can walk right into the site, which is rather remote and involves a long walk. We went on Thursday, 29 July 2021 and had the site to ourselves and were able to carefully explore within the farmstead. The farmstead consists of two adjacent rounded rectangular thick-walled stone buildings with very low doorways facing the sea. The larger and older structure is linked by a low passageway to the other building, which has been interpreted as a workshop or a second house. They were constructed on an earlier midden, and were surrounded by midden material, which has protected them. There are no windows; the structures were presumably lit by fire, with a hole in the roof to let out smoke. Though they now stand close to the shore, they would have originally lain inland.