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Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 16th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2017
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Birsay
Date Added: 12th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2017
Birsay submitted by howar on 23rd Jan 2013. Earl's place and some of the longhouses outlined by snow.
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Ness of Brodgar
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 8th Jul 2017
Ness of Brodgar submitted by Flickr on 3rd Sep 2013. Ness of Brodgar. A reconstruction of these prehistorical, beautiful and unforgettable place in Orkney West Mainland (Scotland) How may Ness of Brodgar have been (thousands of) years ago Image copyright: Germà Martín, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.
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Cuween Hill
Date Added: 14th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2017. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 5 Access 4
Cuween Hill submitted by Jon on 28th Dec 2003.
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Wideford Hill
Date Added: 12th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jul 2017. My rating: Ambience 5
Wideford Hill submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn HY409121. Externally and internally very like Isbister Tomb of the Eagles.
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Grain Earth House
Date Added: 14th Jul 2017
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jul 2017
Grain Earth House submitted by cosmic on 23rd Jan 2005. The Roof Supports
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Vola
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
Site Type: Round Barrow(s)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Vola submitted by howar on 1st Sep 2006. view from big mound (edge of latter showing in right of marsh picture)
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Unstan
Date Added: 14th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jul 2017
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
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Mor Stein
Date Added: 16th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jul 2017
Mor Stein submitted by nicarthurson on 5th Apr 2006. Mor Stein stands on very exposed moorland in the south-east of the island of Shapinsay. There is a chambered cairn (known as Castle Bloody) visible from the stone and in between a number of stone cists are recorded.
HY52401685
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Eastside
Date Added: 16th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes
Eastside submitted by howar on 27th May 2016. Now the stone is unencumbered by the fences, but be careful of your footing on the way to it.
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Knowe of Yarso
Date Added: 12th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2017
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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Taversoe Tuick
Date Added: 14th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2017
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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Yetnasteen
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Yetnasteen submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 447327
An over 7' high standing stone on Rousay. The name comes from Old Norse "Jotunna-steinn" meaning Giant Stone.
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Quoyness Barrow
Date Added: 8th Jul 2017
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
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The Orkney Museum
Date Added: 16th Jul 2017
Site Type: Museum
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jul 2017
The Orkney Museum submitted by jeffrep on 5th Aug 2010. Tankerness House, the Orkney Museum in the heart of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland
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Langstane (Orkney)
Date Added: 12th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2017
Langstane (Orkney) submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 403275
This standing stone on Rousay is just over 8' high. It has a flat face.
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Blackhammer
Date Added: 12th Jul 2017
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 12th Jul 2017
Blackhammer submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Blackhammer Chambered Cairn HY415276. Ancient cairn entombed in a modern bunker.
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Stone 'O Quoybune
Date Added: 12th Jul 2017
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 11th Jul 2017. My rating: Ambience 5
Stone 'O Quoybune submitted by howar on 25th Jan 2004. Wheebin standing stone , HY253263 Orkney
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Barpa Langais
Date Added: 30th Jun 2017
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2017. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Barpa Langais submitted by h_fenton on 25th Sep 2012. Barpa Langais photographed from the South East.
Kite Aerial Photograph
16 September 2012 @ 7.54am
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Dun an Sticir
Date Added: 30th Jun 2017
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (North Uist)
Visited: Yes on 30th Jun 2017
Dun an Sticir submitted by h_fenton on 1st Jul 2007. DUN AN STICER from the causeway, the scale is 1 metre in length, I have made the scale more contrasty so that it shows up.
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