Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site

Official name
Heart of Neolithic Orkney | UNESCO
Country
United Kingdom | Map
Continent
Europe
Location
Mainland Orkney, Scotland<br> <a href=514-loc.htm>Multiple locations</a>
58.9960° Lat, -3.1886° Lon | Map
Code
514
Time Zone
Europe/London (GMT, +0000)
Current Time
Category
Cultural
Description
Inscribed 1999. The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago.