Knowes of Trotty,mounds S of Netherhouse,Huntscarth (Q56666589)

  • matcher place: Orkney Islands (relation 375982), Orkney Islands (relation 3067412)
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  • English Wikipedia categories: Archaeological sites in Orkney, Bronze Age sites in Scotland, Mounds, Prehistoric Orkney
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Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

The Knowes of Trotty is a Bronze Age cemetery located in Mainland, Orkney in Scotland. The ancient site consists of a group of twelve surviving burial mounds (or barrows), dating to 2030–1770 BC. Along with cremated human remains, four gold discs and a number of amber beads and pendants were discovered in the largest mound in 1858. Knowes of Trotty is one of the earliest group of burial mounds in Orkney and one of the largest Bronze Age cemeteries in the United Kingdom.

Wikidata location: 59.0389, -3.1485 view on OSM or edit on OSM

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node: Knowes of Trotty (OSM), 163 metres from Wikidata [show tags]
name: Knowes of Trotty
historic: archaeological_site
wikidata: Q56666589
wikipedia: en:Knowes of Trotty
description: Bronze age burial mounds

wikidata match: Q56666589

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Archaeological sites in Orkney historic=archaeological_site