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Stones of Stenness

United Kingdom  ·  stone circle  ·  58°59'38.0"N 3°12'29.0"W

Stones of Stenness is a stone circle in United Kingdom, henge in Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK. Pyramason catalogues it as PYR-110679 at 58.99389, -3.20806 (58°59'38.0"N 3°12'29.0"W).

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

There are 15 other catalogued sites within 5 km of it, 73 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-110679
CountryUnited Kingdom
Classified asstone circle
Coordinates58.99389, -3.20806
58°59'38.0"N 3°12'29.0"W
Sites within 25 km73
Sites within 50 km135

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Further reading

English Wikipedia  ·  Wikidata Q1478558