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MuseumsSite Name: Tankerness House Museum Alternative Name: Westray Stone, Orkney MuseumCountry: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Kirkwall
Map Ref: HY44851086
Latitude: 58.981314N Longitude: 2.961135W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The spiral and lozenge design is the finest of its kind in Scotland and is permanently on display at Tankerness House, Kirkwall, home of the Orkney Museum.l
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