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Heart of Neolithic Orkney
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Heart of Neolithic Orkney

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Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: United Kingdom
Description:
The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Heart of Neolithic Orkney", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.