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The name Maeshowe, pronounced like the Gaelic word for ‘messy hole’, means ‘the circle of stones’, probably referring to the grave circle of large boulders known as ‘stones’ that were placed in the earth during an earlier period in the construction of the tomb. This burial ground is found in a small knoll on the summit of Blawearie Hill, 4 km north of Stonehaven, about 18 km southeast of Edinburgh. The site is the site of the largest neolithic burial site in Britain and the world’s best example of a stone circle, with its nine stones covered in Pictish symbols and a large, oval chamber at the centre, with entrances at either end. The centre stone is known as the ‘Great Stone’, the largest in the circle. The monument, which is the largest burial chamber known in Britain, is thought to date from around the late third or early second millennium BC.
For around 1,000 years the occupants of the chamber buried their dead in the floor of the chamber, with a number of bodies being encased in stone slabs or placed in niches in the walls of the chamber. About 600 years after the construction of the chamber, around 2800 BC, the bodies of a number of the more prominent occupants of the circle were re-interred, with their tombstones being placed at the centre of the chamber. One of the bodies was laid in the long-handled chair of honour, which is thought to have once been placed on top of the Great Stone, facing east.
Maeshowe’s construction can be dated to around 2700 BC, which is around the same time that many of the other major monuments in this region were built, such as Skara Brae, and many of the long barrows of the later Mesolithic and Neolithic period. There are some unusual features at Maeshowe. First, the central chamber was excavated from the centre of the circle of stones, and excavators found the contents of a cooking pot, animal bones, grinding stones and flint tools at the centre of the floor of the chamber. This finding has been interpreted as evidence ac619d1d87
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