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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.]