Ancient site · Scotland · Partial ruin
Knap of Howar
The Knap of Howar is a Neolithic farmstead on Papa Westray, Orkney, consisting of two adjacent thick-walled rounded rectangular stone houses with very low doorways facing the sea. The stone walls, internal hearths and built furniture survive to eaves height, giving a clear sense of domestic interiors from the Neolithic occupation.
First raised
3699 BC
Its prime
3800 BC
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 3800 BC
The shape it held in its prime.
Two adjacent rounded-rectangular houses built of local flat stone slabs, their walls surviving to about 1.6 m eaves height, low rectangular doorways facing seawards, and grassy turf topping the wall lines where roofs of timber with thatch or turf once sat. Interiors contain stone hearths, a stone-built cupboard and low partition screens; the buildings sit on midden material and open to a low-lying grassy shoreline with the sea visible beyond.
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