MAESHOWE

or Maes Howemāsˈhou, prehistoric monument, on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, off N Scotland, near Stenness. A passage grave with a corbeled vault, it measures 115 ft (35 m) in diameter and 23 ft (7 m) high. It dates to the early 3d millennium b.c. A runic inscription on the wall records a 12th-century Viking visit.

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The Archaeology of Shamanism
Book by Neil S. Price; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Ethnoarchaeology, Material Culture, Shamanism
...facade at Camster Round 182 12.2 Maeshowe passage grave 183 12.3 An elevation and plan of Maeshowe 183 12.4 Looking out along the passage from the chamber inside Maeshowe 184 12.5 The chamber inside Maeshowe...
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Architecture & Order: Approaches to Social Space
Book by Michael Parker Pearson, Colin Richards; Routledge, 1996
Subjects: Architects And Community, Architecture And Society, Civilization, Ancient, Civilization, Medieval, Space (Architecture)
...is also identifiable in the entrance orientation of Orcadian Maeshowe passage graves. Returning to the houses, a larger sample number...classifications, is clearly demonstrated within the passage grave of Maeshowe. Here a monument of the dead is oriented south-west, towards...
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Prehistoric Britain
Book by Jacquetta Hawkes, Christopher Hawkes; Harvard University Press, 1953
Subjects: Great Britain--Antiquities, Great Britain--History--To 449, Prehistoric Peoples--Great Britain
...33 3 Maeshowe, Orkney. Mound covering a megalithic...48 4 Maeshowe, Orkney. Runes carved by Vikings when...north of Scotland and the Orkneys. Maeshowe in those islands Pl. III is comparable...
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A Land
Book by Jacquetta Hawkes; Random House, 1952
Subjects: Geology--Great Britain, Great Britain--Civilization, Human Geography--Great Britain
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The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping Your Landscape
Book by Peter J. Ucko, Robert Layton; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: Landscape Archaeology--Congresses, Landscape Assessment--Cross-Cultural Studies--Congresses
...cruciform arrangement as the local, contemporary chambered tomb of Maeshowe. The houses, however, have a central hearth and are situated...of the dead (Richards 1996:202). Like the surrounding hills, Maeshowe was covered with a grassed mound of clay that positions the...
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Dwelling among the Monuments: The Neolithic Village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe Passage Grave and Surrounding Monuments at Stenness, Orkney
Journal article by Joshua Pollard; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Dwelling Among the Monuments: The Neolithic Village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe Passage Grave and Surrounding Monuments at Stenness (Book)--Book reviews
...The Neolithic Village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe Passage Grave and Surrounding Monuments...the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments...and at the adjacent passage grave of Maeshowe. The bulk of the volume focuses on the...
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Books Received
Journal article; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 11, 2005
Subjects: Bibliography--Best books, Book lists
...2005. pounds sterling17.00 (paper) RICHARDS, COLIN (ed.). Dwelling among the monuments: the Neolithic village of Barnhouse, Maeshowe passage grave and surrounding monuments at Stenness, Orkney. xxii, 397 pp. maps, figs, tables, illus., bibliogr. Cambridge...


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newspaper articles on: Maeshowe  - 4 results

 
 
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TOMBS AT THE TOP; LARA CROFT Is Back in the New Version of Her Top-Selling Video Game Tomb Raider Legend, out in November. the Gun-Toting Archaeologist Has Helped Fuel a Wave of Interest in Ancient Burial Sites. Here, We Look at Scotland's Most Intriguing Tombs
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), September 3, 2006
...silver. When she passed away, Johns heart was buried alongside her in the grounds. The graves are now in ruins. MAESHOWE MAESHOWE, near Kirkwall, in Orkney, is older than the pyramids, dating back more than 5000 years. It is the finest Neolithic...
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TOMBS AT THE TOP; LARA CROFT Is Back in the New Version of Her Top-Selling Video Game Tomb Raider Legend, out in November. the Gun-Toting Archaeologist Has Helped Fuel a Wave of Interest in Ancient Burial Sites. Here, We Look at Scotland's Most Intriguing Tombs
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), September 3, 2006
...silver. When she passed away, Johns heart was buried alongside her in the grounds. The graves are now in ruins. MAESHOWE MAESHOWE, near Kirkwall, in Orkney, is older than the pyramids, dating back more than 5000 years. It is the finest Neolithic...
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TOMBS AT THE TOP; LARA CROFT Is Back in the New Version of Her Top-Selling Video Game Tomb Raider Legend, out in November. the Gun-Toting Archaeologist Has Helped Fuel a Wave of Interest in Ancient Burial Sites. Here, We Look at Scotland's Most Intriguing Tombs
Newspaper article; Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland), September 3, 2006
...silver. When she passed away, Johns heart was buried alongside her in the grounds. The graves are now in ruins. MAESHOWE MAESHOWE, near Kirkwall, in Orkney, is older than the pyramids, dating back more than 5000 years. It is the finest Neolithic...
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Island Stopping; (1) Penelope Lively on the Slow Life That Lures Her Back to the Wilds oOrkney (2) Travel Mail PEACE AND ANCIENT MYSTERY BESIDE THE TOMB OF THE EAGLES
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 26, 1996
...Tomb of the Eagles, mercifully. They do take in some archaeology - a stop-off at Skara Brae, the Stone Age village, and at Maeshowe, the greatest of the tombs, both of which have suffered in consequence and lost that miraculous sense of age and solitude that...


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encyclopedia articles on: Maeshowe  - 3 results

 
 
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Maeshowe
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MAESHOWE or Maes Howe mas hou, prehistoric monument, on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, off N Scotland, near Stenness. A passage grave...
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Mainland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...There are numerous Pictish remains mounds, underground dwellings, circles, and standing stones. Most famous of these are Maeshowe and the Standing Stones of Stenness . Skara Brae is an excavated Stone Age village. 2 Island, 375 sq mi (971 sq km...
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Orkney Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unearthed at Skara Brae on Mainland and a broch (prehistoric fort) at Rinyo on Rousay. Other relics are the burial chambers at Maeshowe and the standing stones at Stenness . The islands have become increasingly popular with tourists and are home to the St...


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