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Maes Howe

United Kingdom  ·  dolmen  ·  58°59'47.8"N 3°11'17.5"W

Maes Howe is a dolmen in United Kingdom, Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-036337 at 58.99660, -3.18820 (58°59'47.8"N 3°11'17.5"W).

Recorded heritage designations: scheduled monument, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site.

There are 17 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 74 within 25 km and 135 within 50 km. That density is itself the finding: this is not an isolated monument but part of a worked landscape.

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The record

Pyramason IDPYR-036337
CountryUnited Kingdom
Classified asdolmen
Coordinates58.99660, -3.18820
58°59'47.8"N 3°11'17.5"W
Sites within 25 km74
Sites within 50 km135

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Further reading

English Wikipedia  ·  Wikidata Q507076