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Sanday, Quoyness

Chambered Cairn (neolithic), Cist (late Neolithic), Inhumation(s) (late Neolithic), Disc (slate)(late Neolithic), Knife (flint)(late Neolithic), Unidentified Pottery (pottery)(neolithic)
Sanday, Quoyness
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Sanday, Quoyness is a chambered cairn in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 3395

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  • Andrew Riley, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Lis Burke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Pennington, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Richard Webb, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rob Burke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Adam Ward, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Oliver Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Nick Liddle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • John Comloquoy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, en.wikipedia.org
Quoyness Chambered CairnArchaeological place · 1 yd

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

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