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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Maes Howe
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(Mainland, *Orkneys) Huge prehistoric burial mound, the largest and best preserved of its kind in Europe. It has an 11m/36ft passage leading into a great central chamber which is surrounded by open tomb cells. Built some time before 1000 BC, it was looted in about AD 1150 by Norsemen who left runic inscriptions describing how they had removed the tomb's treasures over three nights. Nearby are remains of two great circles of prehistoric standing stones, the stones of Stenness (only four upright, plus the nearby isolated Watch Stone) and the Ring of Brodgar, with 27 of about 60 stones still standing.
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