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Shapinsay, Galt Ness

Cairn (prehistoric), Dyke (prehistoric)
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Shapinsay, Galt Ness is a cairn in Orkney Islands, Scotland.

From the Historic Environment Scotland record 2672

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Shapinsay, GarthBurnt Mound (prehistoric) · 1427 ydShapinsay, Castle Battery, Nos. 1 and 2 Searchlight EmplacementsSearchlight Battery (20th Century) · 1602 ydShapinsay, Castle BatteryGun Emplacement(s) (20th Century), Magazine (20th Century), Observation Post (20th Century) · 1659 ydGrass HolmIslet · 1.6 miLing HolmHeadland · 1.7 miBay of FurrowendBay · 1.7 miShapinsay, 'odin's Stone'Boundary Stone (post Medieval) · 2.0 miShapinsayIsland · 2.1 miGairsay, Langskaill HouseCastle (medieval) · 3.1 miRocky beach on eastern coast of Shapinsay, Orkney IslandsBeach · 3.2 miNessBeach / strand · 3.3 miRendall Old CemeteryChurch, cross or graveyard · 3.9 mi

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