We now know that some of the many burial chambers that mark the landscape of Orkney were from the same time as Skara Brae.
Maeshowe is the largest of these and is a very big mark on the landscape.
The dead were clearly important to these people. Do you think the villagers might have come to these tombs to talk with the dead and ask favours or advice?
The sunlight only manages to find its way down the long dark passageway of Maeshowe during the very shortest days of winter. Maeshowe was built like that on purpose.
