Boy with the Bronze Axe
In 1850 a violent sea-storm stripped the sand from Skara Brae in the Orkneys, revealing to the world how life was lived nearly three thousand years ago by the inhabitants of a small Stone Age settlement.
In 1850 a violent sea-storm stripped the sand from Skara Brae in the Orkneys, revealing to the world how life was lived nearly three thousand years ago by the inhabitants of a small Stone Age settlement.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780050006467 (0050006460)
ASIN: 0050006460
Publish date: 1968-07
Publisher: Chatto,B.& O.
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
I got this little children's book from Amazon, as part of my on-going research into the neolithic village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, for the novel I am writing. It was written by a Scottish woman who became a headmistress in Leicestershire and began writing stories for her own children. Born in 1...