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Midhowe Broch
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Midhowe Broch submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Midhowe Broch HY372306.
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Knowe of Yarso
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Saw from a distance on 6th Jun 2013. My rating: Access 2
Knowe of Yarso submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 404281
On Rousay. A neolithic stalled cairn about 50' long x 25' wide entered by a 13' long passage at the eastern end. The chamber (which my have originally been two-storied) is divided into 4 compartments by 3 pairs of upright slabs.
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Taversoe Tuick
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Taversoe Tuick submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 426276
On Rousay this is a two-storied stalled cairn, one of only two known. The round cairn is about 30' in diameter. The lower chamber, reached by a 19' passage, is about 12' long x 5' wide x 5' high, and is divided into 4 cells by upright slabs. The upper chamber, whose floor is the celing of the lower chamber, is reached by an 11' long passage, and is divided into 2 compartments. The cairn is built on a hill so each passage is at ground level, one on the uphill side, the other on the dow...
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Blackhammer
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Blackhammer submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Blackhammer Chambered Cairn HY415276. Ancient cairn entombed in a modern bunker.
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Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 6th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 2
Midhowe Chambered Cairn submitted by jeffrep on 30th Aug 2010. Central Interior of Burial Chamber, Midhowe Chambered Cairn, Rousay, Orkney, Scotland
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Unstan
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Unstan submitted by howar on 27th Jan 2004. Unstan Chambered Cairn front
HY283117 Orkney
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Cuween Hill
Date Added: 7th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 7th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cuween Hill submitted by Jon on 28th Dec 2003.
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Brough of Deerness
Date Added: 6th Jun 2013
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 2
Brough of Deerness submitted by howar on 8th Apr 2007. Entire brough, vallum LH, chapel RH top
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Liddel 2 Burnt Mound
Date Added: 5th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Isbister: Bronze Age House submitted by howar on 10th Apr 2007. site viewed from track coming down
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Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles
Date Added: 5th Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 5th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles submitted by cosmic on 20th Feb 2005. Exiting the Tomb
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Watch Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 4th Jun 2013
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 5 Ambience 4 Access 5
Watch Stone (Orkney) submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Situated 170m NNW of the Stones of Stennes is the Watch Stone; an impressive monolith 5.6m high, dating back to the 3rd millenium BC.
OS HY306125
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Maes Howe
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Maes Howe submitted by Victor Reijs on 9th Jun 2002. Winter solstice sunset at Maes Howe
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Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Stenness
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stenness submitted by Runemage on 15th Jul 2005. Ethereal and numinous.
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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 3rd Jun 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5
Ring Of Brodgar submitted by Andy B on 18th Dec 2004. Image taken one evening in about 1995
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Persepolis
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 5
Persepolis submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Oct 2006. View of Persepolis taken from near one of three rock tombs on a terrace behind the site.
Site known as Takhet Jamshid in Persian
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Naghsh-e-Rostam
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 13th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Naghsh-e-Rostam submitted by KiwiBetsy on 19th Oct 2006. It is known that the tomb at the right (with the scaffolding) is that of Darius I also known as Darius the Great. Other kings probably interred nearby are Xerxes I, Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III. Darius I lived from 550 until 486BC and ruled Persia from 521BC until his death at which time the Persian Empire was probably at it’s peak.
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Pasargadae
Date Added: 24th May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Iran
Visited: Yes on 14th Apr 2009. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Pasargadae submitted by SolarMegalith on 29th Sep 2010. Columns in ruins of Audience Palace (photo taken on April 2007).
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Castro de Borneiro
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Castro or Chafurdão
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2008. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Castro de Borneiro submitted by ernar on 12th Oct 2004. The typical round-huts found in Northwestern Spain Castros can be clearly seen in this close-up of the “Castro de Borneiro”.
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Dolmen de Dombate
Date Added: 23rd May 2013
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Spain (Galicia)
Visited: Yes on 21st Aug 2008. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 1 Access 5
Dolmen de Dombate submitted by ernar on 20th Sep 2004. Picture of the main chamber of the "Modern Dombate" passage grave from the location of the "Old Dombate" portal tomb. Currently this site is difficult to view due to the excavations in progress.
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Log Text: Supposedly the 'cathedral' of dolmens, the Dolmen de Dombate was looking very sad when visited in 2008. 'Protected' by wooden shutters and concrete posts, it was under cover in a makeshift marquee.
I believe things are now much improved, with visitor centre and interpretation etc., but for charm and atmosphere, there are much better sites in Galicia