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Historic Attractions in Orkney Islands
Subcategory: Historic Sites & Monuments
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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Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3LR
The best preserved prehistoric village in northen Europe, with eight dwellings linked by low alleyways. The beautifully...
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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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Finstown, Orkney, Scotland, UK
A magnificent chambered cairn with a beautifully constructed inner chamber containing four side cells. Reached by...
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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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Isle of Wyre, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This simple 12th century building was once the chapel of a Christian Norse family.
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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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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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Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This well preserved farmstead c 2800 BC - 3700 BC was discovered in the 1930s buried under 4 metres of wind-blown sand....
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Birsay, Orkney, Scotland, UK
On this island, easily accessible at low tide, there was once a major Pictish and Viking settlement. The ruins of a 12th...
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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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Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, UK
This extraordinary tomb has been hollowed out of a solid block of sandstone. Outside the entrance is the original blocking...
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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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| 1 | Stones of Stenness (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 2 | Skara Brae Prehistoric Village (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3LR | |
| 3 | Midhowe Chambered Cairn (HS) | Rousay, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 4 | Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn (HS) | Finstown, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 5 | Vat of Kirbister | Scotland, UK | |
| 6 | St Boniface | Papa Westray, Orkney, KW17 2BU | |
| 7 | Holm of Papa Westray Chambered Cairn (HS) | Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 8 | St Mary's Chapel (HS) | Isle of Wyre, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 9 | Unstan Chambered Cairn (HS) | Stromness, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 10 | Churchill Barriers | South of Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 11 | Knap o' Howar (HS) | Papa Westray, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 12 | Brough of Birsay (HS) | Birsay, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 13 | Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn (HS) | Kirkwall, Orkney, KW17 | |
| 14 | Dwarfie Stane Tomb (HS) | Hoy, Orkney, Scotland, UK | |
| 15 | Maes Howe (HS) | Stenness, Stromness, Orkney, KW16 3HA |
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