French: Coeur néolithique des Orcades
The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a World Heritage site in United Kingdom defined by the UNESCO in 1999 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing Location.
It is on position 925 (733, 705) in our monthly survey..

"The group of Neolithic monuments on Orkney consists of a large chambered tomb (Maes Howe), two ceremonial stone circles (the Stones of Stenness and the Ring of Brodgar) and a settlement (Skara Brae), together with a number of unexcavated burial, ceremonial and settlement sites. The group constitutes a major prehistoric cultural landscape which gives a graphic depiction of life in this remote archipelago in the far north of Scotland some 5,000 years ago."
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