Skara Brae - Contemporary Culture

Contemporary Culture

  • The children's novel Il tesoro di Skara Brae by Diletta Nicastro is the second episode of the series The World of Mauro & Lisi, a saga set in Skara Brae and other Neolithic sites in the area.
  • The children's novel The Boy with the Bronze Axe by Kathleen Fidler is set during the last days of Skara Brae.
  • A stone was unveiled in Skara Brae on 12 April 2008 marking the anniversary of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man to orbit the Earth in 1961.
  • Skara Brae is a location in the computer game The Bard's Tale, which is set in a fictionalised Orkney.

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