Period Timeline

• c. 3300 BCE - 2600 BCE
  Neolithic site of Barnhouse Settlement occupied.
• c. 3000 BCE - c. 2800 BCE
  The Neolithic chambered cairn known as Maeshowe constructed and in use.
• c. 2500 BCE - c. 2000 BCE
  The Balnuaran of Clava (Clava Cairns) is built.
• 770 CE
  Last recorded use of Clava Cairns site in antiquity.
• 1850 CE
  Buried Neolithic Age village of Skara Brae uncovered by storm.