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Quoyness Barrow
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Quoyness submitted by castawaycouple on 15th Oct 2003. Quoyness Barrow, Sanday, Orkney.
Visit Orkneys Megaliths
you choose where you want to go!!!
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Mine Howe
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Mine Howe submitted by jeffrep on 23rd Jan 2010. Entrance to Mine Howe, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
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Taversoe Tuick
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Taversoe Tuick submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 426276
On Rousay this is a two-storied stalled cairn, one of only two known. The round cairn is about 30' in diameter. The lower chamber, reached by a 19' passage, is about 12' long x 5' wide x 5' high, and is divided into 4 cells by upright slabs. The upper chamber, whose floor is the celing of the lower chamber, is reached by an 11' long passage, and is divided into 2 compartments. The cairn is built on a hill so each passage is at ground level, one on the uphill side, the other on the dow...
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Knowe of Yarso
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Knowe of Yarso submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 404281
On Rousay. A neolithic stalled cairn about 50' long x 25' wide entered by a 13' long passage at the eastern end. The chamber (which my have originally been two-storied) is divided into 4 compartments by 3 pairs of upright slabs.
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Knowe of Lairo
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Knowe of Lairo submitted by DrewParsons on 17th Oct 2010. The south east facing entrance. September 2010.
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Holm of Papa Westray Central
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holm of Papa Westray South submitted by PAB on 22nd Jun 2016. Carved stone, South Cairn.
It is difficult to make out in detail from this picture (my other photos didn't come out!), but in the flesh there seemed to be potentially 2 animals depicted.
Hopefully someone will be able to get clearer images to post - it is now much easier to get there!
June 2016
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Banks Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Banks Chambered Tomb submitted by howar on 17th Jul 2011. Western chamber repaired. not yet excavated to floor level, as can be seen by height of deposits by LH side of pasage
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Skara Brae
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Skara Brae submitted by paulinelen on 30th Apr 2012. Hut 1 looking out over the sea - such beautiful colour contrasts creates a fantastic atmosphere.
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Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Midhowe Chambered Cairn submitted by SandyG on 30th Sep 2015. Looking north along the chamber. (3rd June 2015).
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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. Southern part of the stone circle. (2nd June 2015).
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Cuween Hill
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Cuween Hill submitted by ShamrockStone on 2nd Apr 2018. Cuween Hill
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Kildalton Cross
Date Added: 15th Jun 2017
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Isle of Islay)
Visited: Would like to visit
Kildalton Cross submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Carved from a single piece of epidiorite in the 6th century, this peerless cross still stands proudly next to the ruins of a church which it pre-dates by several centuries.
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Ardchonnell
Date Added: 5th Jun 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Argyll)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ardchonnell submitted by crannog on 10th Mar 2012. A view of the cairn standing roughly north east.
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Lamel Hill
Date Added: 29th Mar 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Would like to visit
Carn Llechart Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 29th Apr 2015
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Wales (West Glamorgan)
Visited: Would like to visit
Carn Llechart Chambered Tomb submitted by Robc on 15th Aug 2004. Carn Llellechart Stone Circle at SN69730627. This Bronze age ring cairn is unusual in that is a circle of contiguous slabs. In the middle of the circle is a stone cist with its east side and capstone missing.
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Trecastle Mountain ENE
Date Added: 29th Apr 2015
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Wales (Powys)
Visited: Would like to visit
Trecastle Mountain ENE submitted by Robc on 5th Sep 2004. SN83293107
The larger of the two Bronze age stone circles is 23m in diameter with at least 21 surviving stones at pits suggest at least 3 more. There is a slight mound in the circle may cover a burial.
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Nigg Class II Pictish Symbol Stone
Date Added: 27th Apr 2015
Site Type: Class II Pictish Symbol Stone
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Would like to visit
Nigg Class II Pictish Symbol Stone submitted by wallace on 31st Jul 2011. The christian side of the stone. A monochrome conversion made from an HDR image.
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Skelpick Chambered Cairn 1
Date Added: 27th Apr 2015
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Sutherland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Skelpick Chambered Cairn 1 submitted by postman on 28th Apr 2013. The chamber's entrance
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Horn's Cross
Date Added: 27th Apr 2015
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Devon)
Visited: Would like to visit
Horn's Cross submitted by cazzyjane on 9th Dec 2012. Horn's Cross, December 2012.
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Dun Borrafiach
Date Added: 27th Apr 2015
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Isle of Skye)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dun Borrafiach submitted by t4t35 on 2nd Jan 2005. View from west
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