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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Shimal TombCountry: United Arab Emirates
NOTE: This site is 12.433 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Shimal Nearest Village: Rams
Latitude: 25.821812N Longitude: 56.057733E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Chambered Tomb in United Arab Emirates
Long, narrow tomb with an entrance on one side built of locally available stone of the 'Wadi Suq' period tomb dating to beween 2000 to 1300 BCE. Shimal is a village in the lee of the Hajar mountains just north of Ras al-Khaimah city and south of Rams. There was also mid-second to early first millennium BC settlement excavated in the mid-1980s by a team from the University of Göttingen in Germany. Pottery, soft-stone vessels, bronze or copper weaponry, and bead artifacts were found.
Exact Location, site thought to be nearby.
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