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	Maes Howe Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The Maes Howe visitor centre is at Tormiston Mill, on the A965, 3 miles west of Finstown.
		Maes Howe is the finest chambered tomb in North West Europe and is older than the Egyptian pyramids.
		Maes Howe is entered through a low 9m long passage, with a large swivelling blocking stone still in place in its outer end.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /westmainland/maeshowe/index.html (1013 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Maes Howe, part of The Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site
		Maes Howe is a large regular mound, 35m, or 115ft, across and over 7m (23ft) high, which contains an entrance passage and burial chambers, dating from about 3000 BC; this dates from the same time as the construction of the Ring of Brodgar and towards the end of the occupation of Skara Brae.
		Maes Howe has a collection of more than 30 Norse runic inscriptions, which include twig runes, ordinary runes and some beautifully fine carvings of a walrus, a serpent knot and a dragon or lion.
		Maes Howe was included in the schedule of monuments to be protected in the first Ancient Monuments Act 1882 and has been in the care of the UK Government and its agencies since 1910.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2903825 (1202 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Maes Howe
		Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney (off northern Scotland).
		The monuments around Maes Howe, including Skara Brae, were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
		It gives its name to the Maes Howe Type of chambered cairn, which bears no similarities to any other known chambered cairn design, either in Orkney or elsewhere.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ma/Maes_Howe (180 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Wonders of Scotland - Chamber of Secrets
		The 5,000-year-old Maes Howe chamber is not one of Scotland's biggest visitor attractions, although 35,000 visitors a year is a hefty footfall for Orkney and means ticketed tours are the only way to see inside during summer months.
		What's special about Maes Howe - in addition to the solstice display and astonishing proximity to the Rings - are the feelings of happiness and tranquillity so many have reported inside - and the largest collection of runic writings left anywhere by our Viking forebears.
		Maes Howe was excavated in 1861 and stories emerged of an unpleasant spirit, which folklore experts believe to have been a Hogboon.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=1372&id=523052006 (1223 words)

	The Modern Antiquarian.com \| wideford's Blog \| Maeshowe bar Maes Howe
		What has mislead the modern archaeologists has been that the first three sites were described as closest to Maes Howe and at a distance of 80-100m, but this latter actually applies the the area covered by the mounds rather than how far they were from Maes Howe itself.
		Coming up the Staney Hill road that runs east of Maes Howe the indicated position is the field on the other side of the road from that containing the tomb, though if the units were engineer's chains the next field north would be the location.
		Subsequent to the Inventory the NMRS added several soilmarks north of Maes Howe that are all along the line of a modern fence.
	www.themodernantiquarian.com /post/64537/weblog/british_isles.html (2299 words)

	Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station
		MAES scientists Sheng Yang He and Gregg Howe were part of two back-to-back discoveries that solved the mystery, described in the July 18 online issue of the journal Nature.
		Howe is an MAES biochemistry and molecular biology scientist.
		Kris Berglund, MSU distinguished professor and MAES forestry and chemical engineering and materials science researcher, is internationally known for his fermentation research.
	www.maes.msu.edu /news/news_August2007.htm (2396 words)

	Orkney Pictures Online - Maes Howe
		Maes Howe, is located in the centre of the island of Mainland and it is one of the finest persevered Neolithic tunnel mounds in Western Europe.
		All the other aligned tunnel mounds he had visited had their mouths pointing to flat horizons, and to build a tunnel pointing towards such an obvious obstruction for the sunlight could seem a little careless.
		The view towards the remains of the Barnhouse village from the entracen to Maes Howe.
	www.robertlomas.com /Orkney/maeshowe.html (481 words)

	Mine Howe Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		Visitors are greeted at Mine Howe by an exhibition containing photographs and background about the rediscovery, the Time Team excavation and the more recent work on the site.
		The maximum number of visitors allowed to descend into Mine Howe any one time is two, so at busy times you may need to join the informal queue on the grass outside.
		A visit to Mine Howe may not have the mass appeal of a visit to somewhere like Maes Howe or Skara Brae, but it is a fascinating experience nonetheless.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /eastmainland/minehowe/index.html (678 words)

	Recumbent End to End Diary Day 25
		Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn in a wonderful state of preservation.
		The Vikings only used the howe as a shelter for about 50 years, before the roof, weakened when they broke through it to enter the mound, collapsed, thus preserving their inscriptions.
		This was a prehistoric stone circle not a mile from Maes Howe, of which only three still stand to their full height.
	www.btinternet.com /~daniel.johnson/travel/End2End/Chapter6/day25.htm (1307 words)

	Traveling Rat Royce
		No bones were found in Maes Howe, however, because the Vikings cleared it out centuries ago and placed their graffiti on the walls.
		This is Skara Brae, the remains of a Neolithic village even older than Maes Howe but roughly equal in age to the Stones of Stenness.
		The tomb is much like Maes Howe, with this central room, dry stone construction, and three smaller cavities which in this case contained bones (as you'll recall, the Vikings removed any bones that might still have been in Maes Howe).
	www.marellasands.com /orkneys.htm (834 words)

	Scotland Off The Beaten Path Tips by margaretvn - VirtualTourist.com
		Maes Howe on Orkney is Britain's most impressive chambered tomb, and we had wanted to see it for years.
		In Maes Howe there is a long terrifying journey through a low narrow passage which ends in a high, burial chamber.
		It is really a magnificent tomb and is thought to have been the last resting place of a great chieftain and as such was built in the heart of Orkney close to the ceremonial complex of the Brodgar and the Stenness stone circles.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/16388/f8/6 (2442 words)

	Prehistoric.org.uk - Maes Howe - Chambered Tomb (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We first visited Maes Howe on a rather dreary day (the above photograph was taken on a return visit, 2 years later).
		The entrance passage is long, narrow and low and then suddenly you emerge into a spacious stone vault and you are all the more aware of the space around you after the confining trip up the passage.
		In 1153 a group of Vikings took shelter inside Maes Howe from a storm and left their mark to prove it.
	www.prehistoric.org.uk /orkney/maeshowe.html (677 words)

	Orkney Stone Circles and Other Ancient Sites
		Maes Howe is the most impressive chambered cairn in Europe and one of the greatest construction achievements of prehistoric Scotland.
		It is a smaller version of Maes Howe with a very low entrance passage that requires a crawl to negotiate it.
		Situated on Rousay 4 miles WNW of Brinyan pier, Mid Howe is the largest stalled cairn on the islands measuring 107 ft in length with a 76 ft long chamber.
	freespace.virgin.net /ancient.ways/orkney.htm (1330 words)

	Clan Irwin Tours 2001
		These runes and drawings such as the Maes Howe dragon (or lion) continue to serve as inspirations for the lovely jewellery and crafts produced today in Orkney.
		Maes Howe is considered the most spectacular of Orkney's Neolithic chambered cairns.
		Maes Howe along with the nearby Stones of Stenness, the Ring of Brodgar and Skara Brae form part of The Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site and demonstrate “domestic, ritual and burial practices of a 5000-year old culture.”
	www.baymoon.com /~scotland/scotland/2001/moreorkney.html (228 words)

	Maes Howe Chambered Cairn, Orkney
		Perhaps the finest chambered cairn in Britain, Maes Howe stands in an exposed location near Loch Harray.
		Maes Howe is a burial mound built of drystones covered with turf, surrounded by an outer ditch and bank.
		Now, as to why the builders of Maes Howe created this particular alignment, we are on shaky ground.
	www.britainexpress.com /scotland/Orkney/Maes-Howe.htm (930 words)

	Pictures Page 6
		Maes Howe Stone age tomb complete with ground keeping staff.
		Interior of Maes Howe, previously plundered by Vikings, who took the lot.
		This tiny delicate 'dragon' carved into the stone of Maes Howe, is regarded as of Viking origin.
	www.pretentia.com /celticadventure/pictures6.html (485 words)

	Lanark and District Archaeological Society
		The most spectacular tomb on the island is Maes Howe which was built before 2700 BC and is of a type unique to Orkney.
		The entrance passages is aligned south west and is illuminated by the with mid-winter equinox.
		Any artefacts in Maes Howe were cleared by the Vikings, who probably used it as a shelter and filled it with earth when they left.
	www.btinternet.com /~ian.borthwick/LADAS/prog/01_Orkney.html (715 words)

	pasivirta
		She has directed or participated in fieldwork in Uganda, Zanzibar, Eritrea, Kenya, France and the dense population of the University of Edinburgh participating in a series of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage area includes Maes Howe, the Ring of Bright Water is nearby.
		He has been prepared in database form of selfassessment and record of achievement which it was decided that a rare fragment of Neolithic Orkney and Patrick Ashmore's Neolithic and Bronze Pin found in Skara Brae, Maes Howe testify to their cars, coaches or public transport.
		Access to Maes Howe but that did not as yet understand that these reported physical signals electromagnetic wave, particles, infrared etc. Feng's studies cited in the North Sea.
	pasivirta.blogspot.com (862 words)

	Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station
		Other MSU scientists participating in the project are Gregg Howe, MAES biochemistry and molecular biology scientist; A. Daniel Jones, MAES biochemistry and molecular biology and chemistry researcher and director of the MSU Mass Spectrometry Facility; Curtis Wilkerson, manager of the bioinformatics core of the Research Technology Support Facility; and Kenneth Nadler, professor of plant biology.
		An MAES researcher working closely with the U.S. Geological Survey has found that wildfires, which are occurring more frequently and burning more intensely than in the past, are unleashing this sequestered mercury at levels up to 15 times greater than originally calculated.
		The ASHS Extension Publication Award was given to Larry Güt and Ron Perry, MAES scientists, and Peter H. McGhee, MSU entomology technician, for their paper, "Soil Mounding as a Control for Dogwood Borer in Apple," which appeared in HortScience in 2005.
	www.maes.msu.edu /news/news_September2006.htm (4130 words)

	Maes Howe
		Der Artikel Maes Howe gehört zur Kategorie: Archäologie, Kultbau, Steinzeit, Jungsteinzeit
		Maes Howe ist ein in der Jungsteinzeit (ca.
		Maes Howe liegt auf Mainland, der Hauptinsel der schottischen Orkney, ca.
	www.kalkriese.de /Maes_Howe.html (363 words)

	Kathleen Jamie visits midwinter Orkney \| LRB essay \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		I was going to Maes Howe, and if the visit was to be effective, the southern sky had to be clear of cloud for a few crucial moments at sunset.
		The building now known as Maes Howe is a Neolithic chambered cairn, a tomb where, five thousand years ago, they interred the bones of the dead.
		The tomb-builders had constructed their cairn to admit a single beam of solstice light: it was the bending of a natural phenomenon to a human end, somewhere between technology and art.
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,1124890,00.html (5839 words)

	Restoration Omniangels Scotland Maes Howe
		Enveloped with the soothing energies of green grass, the color of the Heart Chakra (the As Above in Heaven So Below on Earth rainbow bridge which connects the upper chakras with the lower chakras), the gentle sloping of the Sacred Mound was reminiscent of the fullness of a woman's breast.
		Maes Howe was a Divine Feminine Grail Cup Chamber that was part of the Sacred Shamanic Mysteries of the ancient Lemurians.
		The Scotland Maes Howe Restoration Omniangels share this Sacred Site focal point with Hierarch Magni Gugemar, a Hierarch of the Second Ray of Matrix Synthesization; and, Hierarch Morgana Murigen, a Hierarch of he Second Ray of Matrix Synthesization.
	www.blessingscornucopia.com /Angels_Angelic_Orders_Restoration_Omniangels_Scotland_Maes_Howe.htm (1059 words)

	Maeshowe - Encyclopedia.com
		Maeshowe or Maes Howe, prehistoric monument, on Pomona in the Orkney Islands, off N Scotland, near Stenness.
		A passage grave with a corbeled vault, it measures 115 ft (35 m) in diameter and 23 ft (7 m) high.
		He kept saying how wonderful it was that Scotland had all this.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Maeshowe.html (1064 words)

	Are some ancient Monuments built to have symbolism on the shortest ... - Blurtit
		Yes we can be sure that Neolithic monuments such as Newgrange in the Boyne Valley in County Meath and Maes Howe on Orkney were constructed to have a special meaning at the winter solstice/shorest day.
		Newgrange and Maes Howe are monuments of advanced construction techniques.
		How did the USA profit from World War I? How did people feel about Ford’s clemency to the draft dodgers?
	www.blurtit.com /q337348.html (357 words)

	West Mainland of Orkney
		If you are fortunate to arrive at Maes Howe during daytime hours, a tour guide is there to explain the significance of the site.
		There is no clear picture as to how the stone circle was used, though there is clear usage of burial mounds close to the stones that can still be seen today.
		A heartbreaking reminder of how artifacts that have survived millennia can be destroyed in an instance though ignorance.
	www.billandcori.com /scotland/orkney.htm (1124 words)

	Maes Howe
		Since the surrounding bank of Maes Howe was found to be a reconstruction dated from the early Viking era on top of the original structure, the mound may have been used as shelter by the Norse during the 9th century.
		Hákon single-handedly bore treasure from this howe." The only artifacts that were found in the 1861 excavation were horses' bones and a fragment of a human skull.
		There are holes around the outside of Maes Howe that appear to be empty sockets for large standing stones.
	www.ancientsites.com /aw/Board/590850 (735 words)

	Maes Howe
		The moundlike Maes Howe is one of the finest passage graves in Europe.
		Since the surrounding bank of Maes Howe was found to be a reconstruction dated from the early Viking era on top of the original structure, the mound may have been used as shelter by the Norse during the 9th century.
		There are holes around the outside of Maes Howe that appear to be empty sockets for large standing stones.
	www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Article/670361 (764 words)

	Maes Howe \| SpACE-Net
		It has been hypothesized that as these resonances are within the lower male vocal range, they may have been used in ritual to accentuate aspects of the voice.
		Unlike many similar ancient structures that have been studied to date, Maes Howe lends itself to the presence of strong modal frequencies.
		It is almost cubic in shape, of dimension 4.6m, with walls made from large, flat slabs of stone, resulting in smooth reflecting surfaces rather than more commonly found irregular placement of smaller stones.
	space-net.org.uk /node/51 (215 words)

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