Talk:Skara Brae

message: How did Skara Brae get it's name? Did the Scots give it to it? Or was there some writing there from the original inhabitants? The snare 22:22, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: Is this 2007 graffiti incident really noteworthy? The graffiti were successfully removed and I don't think there is any long-term significance. Seems to be a piece of news without encyclopedic relevance. Therefore I suggest removing the paragraph as well. Gestumblindi (talk) 19:39, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paragraph "Vandalism" 

message: The "Orkneyjar" external link provides some details of the site's discovery in 1850 and excavation that are not contained in the main article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.154.14.82 (talk) 16:06, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Discovery and excavation

message: I have just found that this is an American variant. As this article is about a British site, I suggest using the British spelling. Finavon (talk) 08:23, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artifacts 

message: "Each of these houses has the larger bed on the right side of the doorway and the smaller on the left." Right and left when viewed from the inside of the dwelling or when entering the dwelling? (I'm mainly interested because Hungarian yurts used to have a similar gender assignment and the women's side was the right side (when entering the yurt). – Alensha talk 23:23, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Beds

message: No remarks concerning wood availability for this culture. Were there trees at all in this area?Kortoso (talk) 03:23, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: -I'll have a look through the guidebook I got and see if it can offer time-frames and information. --Rushton2010 (talk) 09:31, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Wood

message: Is it known what the roofing of the village's houses were likely to have been made from? It's mentioned nowhere in the article and I think probably should be.--Gibson Flying V (talk) 04:11, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roofing 

message: See the most recent issue of the National Geographic on this and other sites in the Orkneys.184.144.76.115 (talk) 23:12, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update Required 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

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thread_title: New photos

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: Orkney Skara Brae.jpg is linked twice in the article, I think we should remove one of the instances. (Only not doing it myself because I'm unfamiliar with policies regarding infobox images, and images in general.) -- kazerniel (talk) 01:16, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate image 

message: I'm not the only one who wonders what a "Neolithic 'load road'" might be.  For instance, the top Google search result on that term is someone who is equally befuddled and frustrated.  This is understandable given that "low road" has an apparently unrelated definition in the vernacular and it is the only definition given by dictionaries!  Jim Bowery (talk) 05:21, 4 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I can extrapolate what *I* think it means but I can't find any texts online which define what exactly it is. In fact the only other google hit seems to be on the Ring of Brodgar wikipedia page which might well be by the same author. Please feel free to suggest an alternative term. Mramoeba (talk) 14:39, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a "Neolithic 'low road'"? 

message: " A sophisticated drainage system was incorporated into the village's design. It included a primitive form of toilet in each dwelling."
Rather than remove this completely could it be modified to say that 'some thin' or there is some evidence to suggest. The subject seems to be well accepted as a possibility and is repeated on many (official) web sites (although I haven't been able to source original works by the well respected excavator who first made the suggestion.
johnmark†(talk to me) 19:47, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This site also seems to quote Ginenthal. 'Some thin'? Also some fat?? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:54, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: We need archeological sources, not a Velikovskian. Doug Weller talk 21:28, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Ooh, thanks for that link. I wonder, did Celestial mechanics work in Neolithic toilets? Martinevans123 (talk) 22:16, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion of primitive toilets 

message: In this sentence -- Each dwelling was entered through a low doorway that had a stone slab door that could be closed "by a bar that slid in bar-holes cut in the stone door jambs". -- the word closed is used to describe an action which appears to be locking? I attempted to verify, but so far haven't been able to locate the source material. I am of the opinion that 'closed' should be changed to 'locked' to avoid confusion. Creedweber (talk) 04:43, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment recovered after being erroneously blocked in an edit filter.  -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (she|they|xe) 06:13, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Tamzin thank you! Creedweber (talk) 03:32, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word usage