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Dennis Head

Ballast Mound
Dennis Head
Photo: Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original Geograph photograph · Report the wrong picture

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Dennis Head is a ballast mound in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 330850

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Photo credits
  • Anne Burgess, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Pennington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Peter Ward, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Lis Burke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Tustin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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