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Excavated world heritage places tagged “solstice”

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🇩🇪Germany

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Cahokia Woodhenge

Mississippian Emergent–Early 900–1150 CE · Mississippian (Cahokia)

Mississippian timber Stonehenge: 410 m 48-post solar calendar aligned to Monks Mound solstice.

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🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith

Newgrange

Neolithic · Irish Middle Neolithic (Boyne Valley)

Grand passage tomb in the Bend of the Boyne with 85 m diameter cairn, decorated kerbstones and cruciform chamber. Famous for winter solstice sunrise illuminating chamber through roof-box.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Maeshowe Chambered Cairn

Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian

Finest Orkney chambered cairn: 36 m mound, long passage, corbelled chamber. Midwinter sunset illuminates chamber. Bears 12th-century Viking runic inscriptions (>30).