Maes Howe
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- Created on: 10-05-14 14:52
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- Maes Howe
- Features
- Stone plugs (to cover each of the chamber entrances)
- Corbelling construction (roof)
- Part of the ritual landscape of Stenness
- Blocking stone in passage way (shut from the inside)
- Main chamber has strange acoustics (almost makes it magical)
- Comparative arch sites
- Newgrange
- Has a blocking stone
- Has a light box (mid-winter solstice) light shines through and penetrates the central chamber
- Neolithic passage grave in Ireland
- Few artefacts as some probably taken over the millennia
- Designed to have particular acoustic effects.(sensory experience)
- Isbister
- Chambered tomb in Orkney
- Three separate compartments like Maes Howe
- Small entrance (need to crawl to enter)
- Human remains were found
- Ancestor worship
- Newgrange
- Site Description
- Access entrance is long, low and narrow (on the south-west side)
- Alignment with the mid-winter solstice sunset. (light shines through the entrance for 15mins)
- Chambered cairn, which is stone built tomb made for the dead.
- Round cairn which is surrounded by a ditch
- Access entrance is long, low and narrow (on the south-west side)
- Religious key terms
- Magic
- Liminal (between the living & the dead)
- Focus of attention
- Ritual specialists (small entrance)
- Sensory experience (acoustics)
- Ancestor (worship)
- Neolithic chambered cairn, in Orkney
- Artefacts
- One skull fragment
- Thought to have been emptied over time (evidences of Vikings)
- One skull fragment
- Features
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