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Skara Brae
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 4th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 5 Access 4
Skara Brae submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Skara Brae Neolithic Settlement HY231187.
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Whitby Cross
Date Added: 17th Jun 2013
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: England (Yorkshire (North))
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 5
Whitby Cross submitted by Jansold on 17th Jun 2013. Whitby Cross, adjacent to abbey car park
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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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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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