Sanday, Elsness Steading

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Recorded parish

Lady

What is recorded here

Sanday, Elsness Steading is a farmstead in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 116478

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Photo credits

• Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Rob Burke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Adam Ward, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Maker not stated on source page, www.pinterest.com
• Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Andrew Riley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Alpin Stewart, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Nick Liddle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Lis Burke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
• John Comloquoy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

Sanday, Ouse PointBuilding, Structure · 477 ydStone breaker, Els NessStanding or carved stone · 586 ydKettletoft BayBay · 1042 ydSanday, Lady Parish ChurchChurch (18th Century) - (19th Century) · 1133 ydSty WickBay · 1416 ydQuoyness Chambered CairnArchaeological place · 1450 yd

Explorer Tom Quoyness makes you crawl into the past, quite literally. A nine-metre entrance passage runs through this Neolithic…

Sanday, QuoynessChambered Cairn (neolithic), Cist (late Neolithic), Inhumation(s) (late Neolithic), Disc (slate)(late Neolithic), Knife (flint)(late Neolithic), Unidentified Pottery (pottery)(neolithic) · 1451 ydSanday, Kettletoft PierPier · 1509 ydLeaving Quoyness CairnAncient tomb or cairn · 1532 ydSanday, Kettletoft Pier Head, Harbour LightBeacon · 1534 ydSanday, Kettletoft, Post OfficePost Office (19th Century) - (20th Century) · 1556 ydFishing boat at Kettletoft PierHeritage place · 1568 yd

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