{"id":749,"date":"2014-08-06T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T02:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/?page_id=749"},"modified":"2014-08-06T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T02:24:58","slug":"ring-of-brodgar-orkney-islands-scotland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/stone-circles\/ring-of-brodgar-orkney-islands-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring of Brodgar, Orkney Islands, Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Brodgar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-750\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Brodgar1.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Brodgar1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Brodgar1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Brodgar1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a>The Ring of Brodgar is one of the most impressive stone circle\/henges in Great Britain. It measures 104 meters in diameter and features 27 menhirs (although originally there were about 60.) The site&#8217;s dating is uncertain, but most scholars agree on a creation date between 2500 and 2000 b.c.e., toward the end of the Neolithic Age. The site lies within a ritual landscape of 2 square miles that features cairns, stone circles, passage tombs, standing stones, stone rows, and mounds. It was clearly a site of some importance during its era, rivaling the ritual landscape at Stonehenge. The Ring of Brodgar most closely resembles the great circle\/henge at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. In 1999, the entire ritual landscape was declared a World Heritage Site, &#8220;Heart of Neolithic Orkney,&#8221; by UNESCO. This is the view from the road from which one accesses the site.\u00a0The photo was taken on Aug. 26, 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ring of Brodgar is one of the most impressive stone circle\/henges in Great Britain. It measures 104 meters in diameter and features 27 menhirs (although originally there were about 60.) The site&#8217;s dating is uncertain, but most scholars agree on a creation date between 2500 and 2000 b.c.e., toward the end of the Neolithic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-749","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":774,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/749\/revisions\/774"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/neolithic-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}