From the 5,600-year-old Knap of Howar, northern Europe’s oldest standing house, you can walk up the coast to St Boniface Kirk.One of the oldest Christian sites in the north of Scotland, the ...

Of the sites that survive here from this late era of the Stone Age, the village of Skara Brae, on the Mainland, is the best known – but the Knap of Howar, on Papa Westray, is at least 400 years ...

"You can stand inside the Knap of Howar, a farmstead dating back nearly 7,000 years to the Stone Age, stone bed frames still intact, and imagine the comings and goings of the island's first farmers.

The Knap of Howar. Home to a Neolithic farmstead dating back to 3,500 BCE, the Knap of Howar is located on the Scottish island of Papa Westray. Made up of two adjacent, ...

The stone buildings at the Knap of Howar are a bit ruined now, but you would be too if you were more than 5,000-years-old and from the late Stone Age.

From the 5,600-year-old Knap of Howar, northern Europe’s oldest standing house, you can walk up the coast to St Boniface Kirk. One of the oldest Christian sites in the north of Scotland, ...