Skara Brae on UK’s best heritage site shortlist

Orkney’s Skara Brae has been shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine’s best heritage site award.

The Neolithic settlement, in Sandwick, is up against Stonehenge, Durham Cathedral, Rutland Water and Tenby for the award.

The winner of the award will be decided by a public vote, available here.

Author Bill Bryson, who compiled the shortlist, described Skara Brae as “miraculously preserved” and said the site’s surviving eight dwellings “are older than Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids of Egypt and yet feel as if they were vacated only yesterday.”