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Hill o' Many Stanes

Near Lybster, Caithness

Around 200 small stones set out in fan-shaped rows on a hillside.

On a gentle slope in Caithness, around 200 small standing stones are set out in 22 rows, spreading out like a fan. Nobody knows what they were for.

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When
About 2000 BC
Where
58.3300, -3.1600
Group
Circles & monuments

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Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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