Sand Geo, Copinsay

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Recorded parish

St Andrews and Deerness

What is recorded here

Sand Geo, Copinsay is a cist in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 3253

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Photo credits

• Colin Park, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
• Mark Crook, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Des Colhoun, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• George Brown, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Ian Balcombe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Rog Frost, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Bill Boaden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Anne Burgess, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

CopinsayMan-made underground passage (prehistoric) (possible) · 24 ydCastle of Sand Geo, CopinsayFort (prehistoric), Axehead (stone)(prehistoric) · 124 ydSummit ridge on Island of CopinsayIsland · 344 ydCopinsay LighthouseLighthouse (20th Century) · 465 ydCorn HolmIsland · 1432 ydA clinically sculpted cave on the Horse of CopinsayCave · 1691 ydBlack HolmCist (early Bronze Age), Cremation(s) (early Bronze Age) · 1.2 miBoulder storm beachBeach · 2.0 miBoulder beachBeach · 2.2 miSkaill Church, Orkney MainlandChurch, cross or graveyard · 3.3 miWar MemorialMemorial · 3.3 miDeerness DistilleryHeritage attraction · 3.7 mi

Explorer Tom Deerness Distillery looks towards the Orkney coast from Newhall, a fine place to make a drink and an even finer place…

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