Large circular wooden houses built on stilts collapsed in a dramatic fire 3,000 years ago and plunged into a river, preserving their contents in astonishing detail. Archaeologists say the excavations ...

Clachtoll Broch in the north west Highlands is being excavated by archaeologists Volcanic pumice stone and pottery of ... have been excavating an Iron Age house, known as a broch, in Assynt.

“It wasn’t any old stone,” she recalls now ... islands lying off the northeast tip of Scotland. “Everywhere in Orkney there is the sense of age, the dark backward and abysm,” the ...

These farms marked the start of a new age in Britain ... off the coast of Scotland, there are no trees. Neolithic people on the islands built their houses from stone. Image caption, Today ...