Heart of Neolithic Orkney
World Heritage Site
- Official name
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Heart of Neolithic Orkney |
UNESCO
- Country
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United Kingdom |
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- Continent
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Europe
- Location
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Mainland Orkney, Scotland<br> <a href=514-loc.htm>Multiple locations</a>
58.9960° Lat, -3.1886° Lon |
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- Code
- 514
- Time Zone
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Europe/London (GMT, +0000)
- Current Time
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- 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.
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