The Standing Stones of Stenness are a Neolithic monument five miles northeast of Stromness on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. This may be the oldest...
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"Stones of Stenness". Stone Pages. Retrieved 25 July 2009. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stenness. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Stenness...
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the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness that has provided evidence of housing, decorated stone slabs, a massive stone wall with foundations, and...
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proximity to the Ness of Brodgar site and the Standing Stones of Stenness and its Maeshowe tomb beyond make the Ring of Brodgar a site of major importance...
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The Loch of Stenness is a large brackish loch on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland and is named for the parish of Stenness. It is 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) northeast...
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Barnhouse Settlement (category Stone Age sites in Scotland)
sited by the shore of Loch of Harray, Orkney Mainland, Scotland, not far from the Standing Stones of Stenness, about 5 miles north-east of Stromness. It was...
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Prehistoric Orkney (section Stones of Stenness)
described it as a find of "astonishing rarity". Skara Brae, Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness together form the Heart of Neolithic Orkney...
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Maeshowe (redirect from Maes Howe - Heart of Neolithic Orkney)
originally surrounded by a large stone circle. The complex including Maeshowe, the Ring of Brodgar, the Standing Stones of Stenness, Skara Brae, as well as other...
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Ness of Brodgar is an archaeological site covering 2.5 hectares (6.2 acres) between the Ring of Brodgar and the Stones of Stenness in the Heart of Neolithic...
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Cairnpapple Hill (category Stone Age sites in Scotland)
known sites like the Standing Stones of Stenness. The summit lies 312 m above sea level, and is about 2 miles (3 km) north of Bathgate. In the 19th century...
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Skara Brae (redirect from Skara Brae - Heart of Neolithic Orkney)
Skaill House Standing Stones of Stenness Zenith of Iron Age Shetland Timeline of prehistoric Scotland List of oldest buildings List of oldest buildings in...
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Stenness and is close to the World Heritage neolithic sites of the Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar. In Old Norse its name was Heraðvatn. The loch was...
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Machrie Moor, Arran Maeshowe, Orkney Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Skara Brae, Orkney Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney Antonine Wall, Scottish Lowlands Trimontium...
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fiction movie Odin Teatret, an Oslo theatre company Odin Stone, one of the Standing Stones of Stenness in Scotland Odin, class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1666...
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Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, around the 2nd millennium BC. Outside of the Stones of Stenness, this monument is the tallest monolith in Orkney. Historic Environment...
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Mainland, Orkney (category Islands of the Orkney Islands)
circles the Standing Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar and the Neolithic village of Skara Brae, together with a number of unexcavated burial,...
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Northern Isles (redirect from History of the Northern Isles)
the past included marriage ceremonies at the Odin Stone that forms part of the Stones of Stenness. The best known literary figures from modern Orkney...
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Mainland, Shetland (category Islands of Shetland)
location of an oil terminal providing an important source of employment for islanders. Brae, North Roe, and Vidlin List of islands of Scotland List of islands...
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Prehistoric Scotland (redirect from Prehistory of scotland)
Standing Stones of Stenness (originally a circle) which lie centrally in a close group of three major monuments. Maeshowe, the finest example of the passage...
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Hoy and West Mainland National Scenic Area (category National scenic areas of Scotland)
of the largest collections of runic inscriptions in the world. Standing Stones of Stenness – the four remaining megaliths of a henge, the largest of which...
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Papa, Scotland (redirect from Isle of Papay)
"Papay") Holm of Papay John of Fordun in his 14th century enumeration of these islands, has a Papeay tertia ("third Papey"), the location of which is unknown...
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Orkney (redirect from Swedish earldom of Orkney)
era include the Standing Stones of Stenness, the Maeshowe passage grave, the Ring of Brodgar and other standing stones. Many of the Neolithic settlements...
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Bressay (redirect from Isle of Bressay)
Bressay Loch of Setter View of Lerwick from Bressay A replica of the Pictish Bressay Stone in St Mary's churchyard where the original stone was found. Scottish...
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Shetland (redirect from County of Zetland)
Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021. Stones, Jake (22 December 2020) “Scotland outlines hydrogen policy to 2045” Archived...
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The Minch (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
islands of the Hebridean chain, is known as the Little Minch. It opens into the Sea of the Hebrides. The Minch and Little Minch form part of the Inner...
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Whalsay (redirect from Isle of Whalsay)
Hvals-øy, meaning 'Whale Island') is the sixth largest of the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland. Whalsay, also known as "The Bonnie Isle", is...
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Sgalpaigh na Hearadh; i.e. "Scalpay of Harris" to distinguish it from Scalpay off Skye) is an island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Mac an Tàilleir (2003)...
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Scarp, Scotland (redirect from Isle of Scarp)
uninhabited island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, west of Hushinish on Harris. Once inhabited, the island was the scene of unsuccessful experiments with rocket...
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Foula (category Islands of Shetland)
prehistoric standing stones. A particular sub-circular stone circle of interest was discovered in 2006 at Da Heights in the north of Foula. A further investigation...
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Hirta (category Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides)
years. "They have reroofed [some of] the cottages on the main street, restored the church, and restacked stones that years of gales had toppled from the cleits...
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