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Ring of Brodgar

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Nov 23, 2020 09:50 PM — History

tags: megalithic, extant remains, UWHS

The Ring of Brodgar (also known as Brogar, or the Ring o' Brodgar) is a Neolithic henge and stone circle monument in Orkney, Scotland.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/178890585

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
59.0017627, -3.2304039

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ring of Brodgar (3000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ring of Brodgar (English, modern)

Ring of Brodgar makes connections with:

Ring of Brodgar connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)

Ring of Brodgar receives connections from:

None

Place type:
monument

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Related:

Wikidata Q643631: Ring of Brodgar

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Ring of Brodgar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/178890585> [accessed: 23 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/178890585 |title=Places: 178890585 (Ring of Brodgar) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 23, 2024 8:33 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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