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Gurness
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Gurness submitted by SueS on 16th Jul 2013. The Broch of Gurness aerial photo from the west showing its position in relation to the sea
Taken at 20-30 hrs on 6 June 2013
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Carn Liath (Sutherland)
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Would like to visit
Carn Liath (Sutherland) submitted by SolarMegalith on 18th Aug 2011. Interior of the broch and view towards the coast (phto taken on July 2011).
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Dun Troddan
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Highlands)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dun Troddan submitted by jeffrep on 27th Jul 2013. Dun Troddan Broch is located on a minor road southeast of the village of Glenelg, which can be reached from the Isle of Skye in the west by the Kylerhea ferry or from the east on the "Old Military Road" off the A87 at Shiel Bridge, in Highland, Scotland.
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Dupplin Cross
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Perth and Kinross)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dupplin Cross submitted by cosmic on 16th May 2007.
Back of the cross with the dedication panel top middle
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Ness of Burgi
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Ness of Burgi submitted by PAB on 22nd Oct 2006. The Fort on the Ness of Burgi, looking west from the coastline. This Fort faces across the bay to Jarsloff and the ramparts of Tonga Fort.
The Royal Commission for Ancient & Historical Monuments in Scotland (RCAHMS) describes the Fort as: "A gatehouse fort, probably datable to about 100 BC, isolated by a rampart, with a ditch on either side, cutting across the neck of the peninsula on which it stands."
It notes that the site was excavated in 1935, and again in 1983 when 'a single cutt...
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Knap of Howar
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Knap of Howar submitted by PaulH on 19th Mar 2003.
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Clickhimin
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Clickhimin submitted by jbamps on 12th Sep 2005. Remain of a broch near Lerwik (Shetland).
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Mousa Broch
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Mousa Broch submitted by h_fenton on 18th Dec 2010. Mousa Broch, Photographed August 1967.
U. Fenton
Uploaded with my mothers permission
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Stanydale
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Stanydale submitted by h_fenton on 12th Jan 2015. Stanydale 'Temple', Vertical Kite Aerial Photograph. Scale: 1 metre.
23 September 2014
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Wadbister Souterrain
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Shetland)
Visited: Would like to visit
Wadbister Souterrain submitted by h_fenton on 19th Feb 2015. Photograph of the entrance passage looking outwards showing the soil/debris choking the passageway.
Photograph taken using a fisheye lens (very wide and somewhat distorted view).
14 September 2014
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Crantit
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Crantit souterrain submitted by howar on 8th Jan 2004. Orkney HY440090
Of undecided provenance, this is possibly a souterrain or chambered grave. Could be later though.
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Rennibister Souterrain
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Rennibister Souterrain submitted by enkidu41 on 5th May 2004. HY 397125
Acces to the 8' x 11' hexagonal chamber to this earth-house is by a trapdoor although originally it wa a sloping passage. The walls are of drystone masonry and upright slabs, its roof of overlapping lintels supported on four heavy pillars.
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Dwarfie Stane
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Dwarfie Stane submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Dwarfie Stane Rock Cut Tomb HY244005. Unique to the this area of abundant ancient sites.
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Holm of Papa Westray South
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Holm of Papa Westray South submitted by jeffrep on 1st Aug 2010. Original Entrance to the Holm of Papa Westray South Chambered Cairn, Orkney, Scotland
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Wideford Hill
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Wideford Hill submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn HY409121. Externally and internally very like Isbister Tomb of the Eagles.
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Vinquoy
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn submitted by shogbits on 24th Feb 2006. External view of Vinquoy chambered cairn - not far from the Stone of Setter.
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Quoyness Barrow
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Quoyness submitted by castawaycouple on 15th Oct 2003. Quoyness Barrow, Sanday, Orkney.
Visit Orkneys Megaliths
you choose where you want to go!!!
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Mine Howe
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Mine Howe submitted by jeffrep on 23rd Jan 2010. Entrance to Mine Howe, Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
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Taversoe Tuick
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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Knowe of Yarso
Date Added: 16th Apr 2018
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
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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