A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Elsness, a promontory in Sanda island, Orkney. Projecting 1½ mile southward from the main body of the parish, and flanking the W side of Stywick Bay, it commands an extensive sea-view, and is crowned by more than twenty vitrified cairns, supposed by Dr Hibbert to have been signal stations of the Norsemen for communicating with their fleets.
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a promontory" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
| Administrative units: | Orkney ScoCnty |
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