Maeshowe

Orkney, Scotland · United Kingdom

Maeshowe, United Kingdom
Photo: Otter at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: Hopmans), CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
spring to autumn
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limited
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A Neolithic chambered cairn on Orkney famed for its precise stonework and a passage aligned to the midwinter sunset. Its walls also carry runic graffiti left by Norse visitors centuries later.

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