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Quoyness

The site of a spectacular prehistoric chambered tomb, Quoyness lies on the Quoy Ness peninsula on the south coast of the Orkney island of Sanday. Excavated in 1867 and again in 1952, the tomb has a main chamber and six smaller cells.


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