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Culture Buff

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

23 May 2015

9:00 AM

The Laird’s House at Skara Brae on Orkney overlooks the Neolithic settlement, uncovered in a huge storm in 1850. Predating Stonehenge, nothing is really known yet about its prehistoric inhabitants. By contrast in the House we were astonished to see Captain Cook’s tea service from the Resolution. That ship sheltered there with Discovery for two months in 1780 returning from Cook’s ill-fated third voyage.

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