Ring of Brodgar

Neolithic henge and stone circle on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland
Place henge Q643631
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Ring of Brodgar

Summary

Ring of Brodgar is a henge[1]. It draws 258 Wikipedia views per month (henge category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ring of Brodgar is located in Orkney Islands[3].
  • Ring of Brodgar is located in Stenness[4].
  • Ring of Brodgar is in the country of United Kingdom[5].
  • Ring of Brodgar's image is recorded as Ring of Brodgar20061217.jpg[6].
  • Ring of Brodgar's image is recorded as Ring of Brodgar - Orkney.jpg[7].
  • Ring of Brodgar's image is recorded as RingofBrodgarJM.jpg[8].
  • Ring of Brodgar's instance of is recorded as henge[9].
  • Ring of Brodgar's instance of is recorded as stone circle[10].
  • Ring of Brodgar's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[11].
  • Ring of Brodgar's part of is recorded as Heart of Neolithic Orkney[12].
  • Ring of Brodgar's Commons category is recorded as Ring of Brodgar[13].
  • Ring of Brodgar's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 59.0014818, 'lon': -3.2297227}[14].
  • Ring of Brodgar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0k403[15].
  • Ring of Brodgar's Historic Environment Scotland ID is recorded as SM90042[16].
  • Ring of Brodgar's Canmore ID is recorded as 1696[17].
  • Ring of Brodgar's World Heritage Site ID is recorded as 514bis-003[18].
  • Ring of Brodgar's heritage designation is recorded as part of UNESCO World Heritage Site[19].
  • Ring of Brodgar's heritage designation is recorded as scheduled monument[20].
  • Ring of Brodgar's GeoNames ID is recorded as 2639341[21].
  • Ring of Brodgar's Pleiades ID is recorded as 178890585[22].
  • Ring of Brodgar's BBC Things ID is recorded as f757fcb5-1543-460b-b9de-f6e1db82fa21[23].
  • Ring of Brodgar's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Ring of Brodgar'}[24].
  • Ring of Brodgar's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q35852', 'amount': '+13'}[25].
  • Ring of Brodgar's GNS Unique Feature ID is recorded as -2606303[26].
  • Ring of Brodgar's time period is recorded as Neolithic[27].

Body

Geography

Ring of Brodgar is in the country of United Kingdom[5]. Located in include Orkney Islands[3], an archipelago[28], in United Kingdom[29] and Stenness[4], a civil parish[30], in United Kingdom[31]. Its part of is recorded as Heart of Neolithic Orkney[12].

Physical Characteristics

Ring of Brodgar's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q35852', 'amount': '+13'}[25].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include henge[9], stone circle[10], and archaeological site[11]. Heritage statuses include part of UNESCO World Heritage Site[19] and scheduled monument[20].

Why It Matters

Ring of Brodgar draws 258 Wikipedia views per month (henge category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . wikidata.org.
  6. [10] . wikidata.org.
  7. [11] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . portal.historicenvironment.scot. portal.historicenvironment.scot. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [4] . Historic Environment Scotland ID. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . portal.historicenvironment.scot. portal.historicenvironment.scot. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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