I'm not that into Neolithic stuff. I mean I'll go and visit sites if they're nearby, or I can get there with an easy bus trip, or take a plane over to another island and walk up a muddy farm track in the rain, and across a wet paddock...
The Knap of Howar is a farm house and accompanying building on Papa Westray, one of the islands of Orkney. It's believed to have been built about 3800 BCE and, everything says, its the oldest extant stone house in NW Europe. Really, if you look at the oldest "buildings" in the world, most of them are tombs or burial mounds. As actual old building(site)s go, this little up in the top 3 or 4. Which is rather cool.
Also cool is that you can go inside and, when I was there, there was no one else there. Not even any birds. Just me* and the wind. Definitely one on the best sites I visited. (Sorry other wonderful places.)
More information: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-place/places/knap-of-howar/
*After leaving the airport, I saw only three people all day: a guy doing some welding, the lovely lady who offered a wet visitor a ride and a truck that turned off before it reached me. If you're not keen on crowds, Papa Westray is a good place to visit.
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