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Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 618984

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/618984

Among objects bought at the Kirkwall Museum sale donated to

the National Museum of Antiquities were three stone whorls found

in different parts of Sanday, 1823-6. These presumably came

from the collection of Dr Wood. [R1]

BE33-7 whorls of stone and one of Lead, from Orkney, Col

Balfour, 1863. [R2]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]

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