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Sketch showing the Dwarfie Stane, Hoy, Orkney
DC 53065
Description Sketch showing the Dwarfie Stane, Hoy, Orkney
Date 8/1801
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number DC 53065
Category Prints and Drawings
Copies DP 418375
Scope and Content Sketch in sketchbook with drawings made during a tour of Orkney and Shetland in August 1801, likely by James Skene of Rubislaw. Wash View from the south of the entrance into the rock-cut tomb, with the closing stone lying in front. Figure sketching in foreground. Published in 'The history of the Orkney Islands', G Barry 1805: pl 12, opp p252.
Medium wash
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 164
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/1214819
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