Photo taken 14th May 2014. Fantastic construction, looking up to the roof that puts the ‘cor’ in corbelling!
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Inside the tomb on 14th May 2014, looking towards one of the side chambers. It’s taller than you think!
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Photo taken 14th May 2014. The cairn almost seems to blend into the hillside.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. One of the finest heel shaped cairns on Shetland.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. The fine forecourt of the tomb.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. The cairn in its wonderful setting overlook Minn bay.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. Rear view of the cairn, clearly showing the ‘horseshoe’ shape of the tomb.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. Looking out across the Atlantic side of Mavis Grind, Islesburgh cairn is visible on the headland to the right of the picture.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. Wonderful views from the stone looking south out across Busta Voe.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. Sunshine on Shetland (such a difference from our last visit!) Looking from the fallen stone west to the imposing bulk of Busta himself.
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. Beautiful fin-shaped stone on a beautiful Orkney day.
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. Looking north at the stone inside its barbed wire pen.
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. Stews stone visible on the horizon atop the rise, the view you get of it from the road.
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. The stone looking out towards Newark Bay on the east side of South Ronaldsay.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. Looking back across Mavis Grind the thin spur of land dividing the North sea from the Atlantic. Isleburgh chambered cairn is just visible on the spit of land in the foreground of the left of the picture.
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Photo taken 12th May 2014. The isthmus of Mavis Grind on a sunny Shetland day. The Atlantic is on the right and the north sea on the left.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. The cairn looks out over the lovely view of the East Burra Firth.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. The East Burrafirth cairn from the road, with inquisitive guard ram!
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. Looking south to the moorland away from the firth.
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Photo taken 11th May 2014. The diminutive cairn at East Burrafith.
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Photo taken 9th May 2014. The fin shaped stone of Mid Field looking southward.
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Photo taken 9th May 2014. The Mid Field stone looking down towards South Voe, the island of East Burra in the background.
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Photo taken on 10th May 2014. From this angle the Busta stone looked to me like a giant stone head, with a blindfold of lichen.
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Photo taken 10th May 2014. The huge granite monolith of the Busta stone, looking south down the waters of Busta Voe.
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Photo taken 6th May 2014. Salt Knowe still fenced off. As can be seen the ‘anti-rabbit’ precautions don’t seem to be terribly effective!
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. Looking back towards the island of Burray. The causeway giving access to Hunda is visible in the background to the left of shot.
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. Cairnhead, is it a cairn or is it a broch?
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. The possible cist in the cairn is visible in the foreground to the left of the photo.
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Photo taken 7th May 2014. The Cairnhead cairn dominates the south point of Hunda.
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Blue skies over the Trippet stones, with Carbilly Tor in the background, on 9th March 2014.
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Arc of the circle in its wide open landscape. Photo taken on 9th March 2014.
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Moon over the Trippet Stones. Photo taken 9th March.
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Photo taken 8th March 2014. The enchanting Brane burial chamber.
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Photo taken 8th March 2014. The first view of the burial chamber as I enter its field.
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Photo taken 8th March 2014. The Maidens huddled on the moors.
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Photo taken 8th March 2014 at 8am. The back of Ballowall barrow looking out to Lands End, with a vague hint of the early morning sea mist on the horizon.
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Photo taken 8th March 2014. From this angle you can almost see how this could once have been a stone circle.
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Photo taken 8th March 2014. The view of the stones as we approach from the path down from Ding Dong mine.
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Photo taken 5th March 2014. Grey skies over a brooding landscape at Chun Quoit.
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Photo taken on 5th March 2014. The magical Sancreed Holy Well. When we arrived there was already a freshly lit candle burning in the well chamber.
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One of the pyrographed offerings left at the Sancreed Well. Photographed on 5th March 2014.
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Photo taken 7th March 2014. The Merry Maidens, so good they named it ten times.
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Photo taken 7th March 2014. The Merry Maidens, they’re merry cos the sun is shining! (Finally!)
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Photo taken 7th March 2014. The Blind Fiddler under welcome blue skies.
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Photo taken 7th March. The curve of the forecourt at Tregiffian. The Merry Maidens visible in the background, showing how close together the two sites are.
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Photo taken 7th March 2014. Muddy fields and polythene at the Sisters of Drift.
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Photo taken 5th March 2014. One of repaired holed stones, with the looming shape of Carn Kenidjack on the skyline in the background.
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