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The great bulk of the West Mainland is fertile, productive farmland, fenced off into a patchwork of fields used either to produce crops or for cattle grazing. It is, however, fringed by some spectacular coastline, particularly in the west, and littered with some of the island's most impressive prehistoric sites, such as the village of Skara Brae, the standing Stones of Stenness and the chambered tomb of Maes Howe.
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