What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, Lambaness as Burial (viking). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Viking burial; dating to the early medieval period (c. 8th–11th century). Lambaness is significant as a high-status Norse site associated with the Pictish and Norse settlement in Orkney.
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Places near here
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Sanday, Lamba NessSite (period Unassigned) · 1184 yd
Electricity sub-stationHeritage place · 1330 yd
Bay of StoveBay · 1.7 mi
Mu Geos and Castle Rock from the SeaCastle, fort or tower · 2.1 mi
Hill of Bomo, EdayMountain or hill · 2.4 mi
Vinquoy PlantationForest · 3.0 mi
Stennie HillMountain / peak · 3.0 mi
Holms of SpurnessIslet · 3.1 mi
Vinquoy HillMountain / peak · 3.1 mi