Maes Howe
Sign in to saveAlso known as Maes Howe, chambered cairn, Maeshowe
200px|right|thumb|Maeshowe Entrance
Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Maeshowe
- Ancient site.alternate_name
- Maes Howe
- Ancient site.image
- MaesHowe.jpg
- Ancient site.caption
- The chambered cairn in 2006
- Ancient site.map_type
- Scotland
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location in Scotland, United Kingdom
- Ancient site.location
- Stenness, Scotland
- Ancient site.type
- Chambered cairn
- Ancient site.diameter
- 35 meters
- Ancient site.height
- 7.3 meters
- Ancient site.material
- Stone
- Ancient site.epochs
- Neolithic
- Ancient site.ownership
- Historic Scotland
- Ancient site.public_access
- Yes
- Ancient site.designation1
- WHS
- Ancient site.designation1_partof
- Heart of Neolithic Orkney
- Ancient site.designation1_date
- 1999 (23rd session)
- Ancient site.designation1_type
- Cultural
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- chambered cairn
- Part of
- Heart of Neolithic Orkney
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Area
- 4.638
- Image
- Maeshowe.jpg
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- Commons category
- Maeshowe
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
- historic county
- Orkney Islands
- associated electoral district
- Orkney and Shetland
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- Name and etymology
- Design and construction
- Siting
- People and society
- Style
- Norse intrusion and runic inscriptions
- Excavation
- World Heritage status
- Visitor centre
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
200px|right|thumb|Maeshowe Entrance
Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; ) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around . In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maes Howe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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