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Maes Howe

Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland
Place archaeological_site Q507076

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
archaeological site, chambered cairn[5]
Country
United Kingdom[4]
Located in
Orkney Islands, Stenness
Part of
Heart of Neolithic Orkney[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 58.997°, -3.188°[7]
Area
1.0, 4.638[10][11]
Associated electoral district
Orkney and Shetland[12]
Coordinates
🗺️ 58.997°, -3.188°
Heritage designation
part of UNESCO World Heritage Site (1999–present), scheduled monument (1882–present)[8][9]
Historic county
Orkney Islands[13]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Orkney Islands, Stenness[2][3]
🏷️ Also known as
en Maeshowe en Maes Howe en Maes Howe, chambered cairn el Τύμβος Μέισοου fa میزهو he מיס האו ja メイズハウ ru Мейсхау zh 梅肖韦古墓
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Maeshowe.jpg ↗
Atlas Obscura place ID
maeshowe
Canmore ID
2094
Freebase ID
/m/0551q
GeoNames ID
7535369
Grove Art Online ID
T053076
Historic Environment Scotland ID
SM90209
OpenStreetMap way ID
288905594
Pleiades ID
506158212
World Heritage Site ID
514bis-001
World History Encyclopedia ID
Maeshowe

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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
archaeological site, chambered cairn
Associated electoral district 1
Orkney and Shetland
Belongs to 1
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
Country 1
United Kingdom
Heritage designation 1
scheduled monument
Historic county 1
Orkney Islands
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Orkney Islands
Part of 1
Heart of Neolithic Orkney
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Summary

Maes Howe is an archaeological site[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Orkney Islands[2], an archipelago[14], in United Kingdom[15] and Stenness[3], a civil parish[16], in United Kingdom[17].

Related Entities

United Kingdom

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . portal.historicenvironment.scot. portal.historicenvironment.scot. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . portal.historicenvironment.scot. portal.historicenvironment.scot. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [17] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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