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Sanday, Quoy Banks

Inhumation(s) (viking), Mound (viking), Ship Burial (viking)

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Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, Quoy Banks as Inhumation(s) (viking), Mound (viking), Ship Burial (viking). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Viking ship burial and inhumation mound, 9th–11th century AD. This site is significant as a rare example of high-status Viking burial practices in the Orkney Islands.

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