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Places tagged “orkney” in United Kingdom · Mysteria

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Places tagged “orkney” in United Kingdom

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Mine Howe

Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact

Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn

Early–Middle Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic

Stalled cairn on Rousay with tripartite chamber, 29 burials, c.3500 BCE.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Vinquoy Chambered Cairn

Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic

Maeshowe-type hilltop cairn on Eday with four side cells, c.3200 BCE.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Brough of Birsay

Pictish (7th–9th c.) and Norse (9th–12th c.) · Pictish / Norse (Earldom of Orkney)

Tidal islet at Birsay linked by causeway, famous for Pictish and Norse settlements overlapping. Pictish symbol stones and Norse earldom complex (9th–11th c.) with broch foundations underneath.