Maes Howe

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 21, 2020 10:11 AM — History

tags: UWHS

Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506158212

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
58.9965662, -3.1882244

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Maes Howe (3000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Maes Howe makes connections with:

Maes Howe connection Orcades (islands) (unspecified date range)

Maes Howe receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tomb

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Related:

Wikidata Q507076: Maes Howe

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Maes Howe: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506158212> [accessed: 18 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506158212 |title=Places: 506158212 (Maes Howe) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 18, 2025 4:20 am |publisher=Pleiades}}