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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Brodgar — Ness Breck Stone Row

Late Neolithic (3100–2700 BCE) · Grooved Ware

Ness perimeter row revealed in N. Card excavations 2010, linking to earlier Brodgar farm enclosure.