The chambered tomb at Maeshowe, Orkney, Scotland, 2,800 BC. For around 6 weeks the setting winter sun aligns with the bee-hive-shaped chamber of the cairn which has been compared in construction and quality with the Great Pyramid of Giza. No grave goods were found in either.

What a day for #pollencoring in #orkney at #Lyradale #Orkney views across to #wideford #bayofirth #cuween #neolithic #tomb #finstown and right round to #maeshowe #stonesofstenness and #nessofbrodgar

Waited for years to get inside #MaesHowe and on a very grey and wet Sunday we finally made it! #Orkney

Achieved an ambition at last - #pilgrimage to the Ring of #Brodgar , #Stenness stone circle and the fantastic #Maeshowe #orkney - totally fascinating and inspiring, every #pagan or #pantheist should do it at least once a lifetime. 💕 #stonecircle #neolithic #pagan ism #pantheism

Imagine living in #Orkney 5000 years ago and having the knowledge and skill to build the chambered cairn at Maeshowe. Built so that each year on the #WinterSolstice (if the sky is clear) the setting sun shines down a perfectly aligned passageway and illuminates the inner chamber.

Exploring Maeshowe, one of the best preserved Stone Age tombs in Western Europe.

Filmed on our Prehistoric 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ventures last year!

Before and after a visit to Maeshowe this afternoon.

#TombTuesday
1000s of years ago, the #Neolithic residents of #Scotland ’s #Orkney Islands came together to build a complex series of burial mounds in which they laid the deceased to rest. Largest of these cavernous, chambered tombs a cairn called Maeshowe
#Archaeology #History

Maeshowe (Orkhaugr) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built around 2800 BC.

In the archaeology of Scotland, it gives its name to the Maeshowe type of chambered cairn, which is limited to Orkney. More than a…

Archaeo - Histories Maeshowe - Scotland📍
Maeshowe is a complex of Neolithic tombs located in Scotland, on the Orkney Islands. Its construction is attributed to the same culture that created other famous sites such as Skara Brae, and it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999. The site is…

Maeshowe looking chilly Friday afternoon.

¡Descubre el impresionante hallazgo de un portal que conduce a otro mundo en Maeshowe, Escocia! Este monumento neolítico revela cámaras diseñadas como 'inframundos invertidos'. ¡Léelo aquí: webmisterio.com/enigmas/descub…! #Arqueología #Escocia

Here's a look inside #cuween #neolithic #tomb #orkney which has its own #runes carved inside - a modern addition copying there fact #norse #runes were incised in #maeshowe #passagetomb I've been told they're from #LOTR can anyone confirm and translate?

Some Monkshood casually growing outside Maeshowe Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site 🌱

Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn, with its three concentric stone walls. Dating from around 3500-2400 BC, the ‘Maeshowe-type’ cairn is built into the side of Wideford Hill, near Kirkwall in Orkney. #TombTuesday #Prehistory #Orkney 📷 My own.

The secrets of a distant age: the Barnhouse Stone near the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney, lines up with the entrance to Maeshowe (some 800 yds away) at the setting midwinter sun so that light shines into the inner chamber. Part of a fascinating Neolithic landscape. #StandingStoneSunday

It’s a dreich day here so can’t quite see Maeshowe across the loch from the Comet Stone.

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Good morning everyone 🙂

Maeshowe Mound, Stenness, Orkney.

There is an amazing young people’s art exhibition on just now at Maeshowe Visitor Centre, it’s well worth a peedie look if you are passing.

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Finally Maeshowe, would love some shots of the interior but ...camera ban 🤬🤬
Never understand when herritage organisations get precious about cameras - same at Gavrinis
the 1's and 0's of my digital camera are going to hurt the stones? 🙄
#TombTuesday