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- Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; Old Norse: Orkhaugr) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and p****age grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built...
- later Maeshowe type. It was in use for 800 years or more and numerous bird bones were found here, predominantly white-tailed sea eagle. The Maeshowe group...
- 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. The first...
- Skara Brae p****es near both these sites and ends at the chambered tomb of Maeshowe. Low roads connect Neolithic ceremonial sites throughout Britain. Originally...
- interpretation of the evidence, grooved ware is ****ociated with the builders of the Maeshowe class of chambered tomb. The geographic distribution in Orkney of the two...
- December 1999. The site of patrimony currently consists of four sites: Maeshowe – a chambered cairn and p****age grave, aligned so that its central chamber...
- artificial structure but gains plausibility from the other two indicated lines. Maeshowe is thus an extremely sophisticated calendar site which must have been positioned...
- [citation needed] Examples are Newgrange in Ireland,[citation needed] Maeshowe in Orkney[citation needed] and Barclodiad y Gawres in Anglesey. Powell...
- Norse poetry composed in Scotland survive. Among the runic inscriptions at Maeshowe is a text identified as irregular verse. Scandinavian cultural contacts...
- the stream and near the tip of the isthmus formed between the two lochs. Maeshowe chambered cairn is about 1.2 km (0.75 mi) to the east of the Standing Stones...