Backland

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What is recorded here

Backland is a broch in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 3038

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Photo credits

• Ian Balcombe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Anne Burgess, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Bill Boaden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Mark Crook, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Mike Pennington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Des Colhoun, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Boulder storm beach and wave-cut platformBeach · 268 ydDrain on the beachBeach · 370 ydNewark BayBuilding(s), Burial(s), Cemetery (bronze Age) (possible), Chapel (medieval), Cremation (bronze Age), Estate Building(s) (post Medieval), Human Remains(s), Inhumation(s), Vessel (bronze Ag · 619 ydNewarkBurial Ground (early Medieval), Carved Stone (pictish), Chapel (10th Century), Lairds House (16th Century), Man-made underground passage(s) (prehistoric) · 643 ydNewark HouseOld home or work place · 659 ydGrindigarthFarmstead (post Medieval) · 1.2 miWar MemorialMemorial · 1.5 miDeerness DistilleryHeritage attraction · 1.6 miBreckanNo Class (event) · 2.4 miSummit ridge on Island of CopinsayIsland · 2.6 miHorse of CopinsayIslet · 2.7 miA clinically sculpted cave on the Horse of CopinsayCave · 2.7 mi

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