Monday 2nd August 2010
Stone Age DIY discovery in Orkney
The Scotsman
5,000-year-old Dulux is found on Orkney
Even in Stone Age times it seems people were keen on a bit of DIY, with prehistoric hunters in Scotland the first to go in for painting and decorating.
A site in Orkney has produced the first evidence that paint was used to decorate buildings 5,000 years ago in what is being hailed as one of Europe's most astonishing archaeological discoveries
A stone slab painted red, orange and yellow was uncoverd at the site of a prehistoric "cathedral" which itself amazed experts when unearthed last year.