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Historic Attractions in Orkney
Subcategory: Historic Sites & Monuments or Towns & Villages
Liddel, St. Margarets Hope, Orkney, KW17 2RW
Outstanding 5,000 year old burial cairn, named after the Sea Eagles whose talons were found buried alongside human...
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Finstown, Orkney, Scotland, UK
A magnificent chambered cairn with a beautifully constructed inner chamber containing four side cells. Reached by...
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Stromness, Orkney, KW17
These tall and extraordinarily impressive standing stones were once part of a circle of twelve stones surrounded by deep...
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Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK
Protected by a modern structure, this huge tomb, 23 metres in length is divided by upright slabs into twelve compartments....
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Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This historic town developed during the 18th century after it was chosen by the Hudson's Bay Company as a base for...
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Kirkwall, Orkney, KW17
This well-preserved tomb, has a large main chamber and three side cells. Entrance is now through a hatch in the roof....
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Sanday, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This outstanding tomb stands on Els Ness peninsula, a site of many burial mounds and smaller cairns. Quoyness has a...
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Rousay, Orkney, KW17
A most unusual double storeyed chambered cairn. Each chamber has its own separate entrance.
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Stromness, Orkney, KW17
A long chambered cairn, with the burial compartments divided by upright slabs. A large quantity of distinctly shaped and...
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Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK
One of the remotest and most impressive of all the tombs on Orkney. It has a long central chamber containing twelve...
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Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This long stalled cairn, protected by a modern roof, is divided into three compartments. The bones of 29 people were found...
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Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3HA
The finest megalithic tomb in the British Isles, built in Neolithic times before 2700 BC. Runic inscriptions tell of how...
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Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This great stone circle surrounded by a massive ditch, once 3 metres deep and 10 metres wide, is one of the most...
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South of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, UK
The barriers were built in 1941-43 to stop German submarines reaching the British naval base in Scapa Flow. The 66,000...
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| 1 | Tomb of the Eagles | Liddel, St. Margarets Hope, Orkney, KW17 2RW | |
| 2 | Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn (HS) | Finstown, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 3 | Stones of Stenness (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 4 | Midhowe Chambered Cairn (HS) | Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 5 | Stromness | Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 6 | Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn (HS) | Kirkwall, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 7 | Quoyness Chambered Cairn (HS) | Sanday, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 8 | Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn (HS) | Rousay, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 9 | Unstan Chambered Cairn (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 10 | St Boniface | Papa Westray, Orkney, KW17 2BU | |
| 11 | Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn (HS) | Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 12 | Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn (HS) | Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 13 | Maes Howe (HS) | Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3HA | |
| 14 | Ring of Brodgar (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 15 | Churchill Barriers | South of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, UK |
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