Ring of Brodgar
United Kingdom · stone circle · 59°00'05.3"N 3°13'47.0"W
Ring of Brodgar is a stone circle in United Kingdom, Neolithic henge and stone circle on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-110581 at 59.00148, -3.22972 (59°00'05.3"N 3°13'47.0"W).
Recorded heritage designations: scheduled monument, part of UNESCO World Heritage Site.
There are 16 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 72 within 25 km and 133 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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Narration: Jason Abadi (AI voice, ElevenLabs). The data and the analysis are from the Pyramason atlas.
The record
| Pyramason ID | PYR-110581 |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Classified as | stone circle |
| Coordinates | 59.00148, -3.22972 |
| 59°00'05.3"N 3°13'47.0"W | |
| Sites within 25 km | 72 |
| Sites within 50 km | 133 |
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What is around it
- Fresh Knowe0.2 km
- Comet Stone0.2 km
- Ness of Brodgar0.9 km
- Bookan Cairn1.1 km
- Barnhouse Settlement1.5 km
- Stones of Stenness1.5 km
- Ring of Bookan,chambered cairn 180m SW of Bookan1.6 km
- Mainland, Point of Onston2.0 km
- Unstan Chambered Cairn2.0 km
- Barnhouse Stone, standing stone2.2 km
Updates from the atlas
Further reading
English Wikipedia · Wikidata Q643631
Nearby on the atlas
- Stones of Stenness1.5 km
- All catalogued pages in United Kingdomcountry hub
Distances are great-circle, from the coordinates Pyramason holds for each site.