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Note

Date 1980

Event ID 1135931

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1135931

Elsness, Sanday HY c. 673 375 HY63NE 6 & 13

At least twenty-six cairns scattered over a wide area. The New Statistical Account records burials, stone objects and 'cramp' in them.

RCAHMS 1980

(NSA, xv, Orkney, 136-8; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 170, Nos. 452,457; OR 309)

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