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 (BST, +0100)

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.