The Holm of Papa (or Holm of Papay, Holm of Papa Westray and known locally as the Papay Holm,) is a very small uninhabited island in the Orkney Islands...
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year, with many nesting on the offshore islet of the Holm of Papa. Both North Hill and the nearby Holm of Papa have been designated Important Bird Areas (IBAs)...
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island of Holm of Grimbister off the mainland coast has no bays. The small island of Holm of Huip has no bays. The small island of Holm of Papa has no...
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other, later priests. Papa Stronsay Papa Westray (also known as "Papay") Holm of Papay John of Fordun in his 14th century enumeration of these islands, has...
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hInse 'town of the holm') Glimps Holm Helliar Holm Holm of Papa Lamb Holm Linga Holm Muckle Green Holm In the vicinity of Copinsay: Black Holm Corn Holm In the...
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Forewick Holm is a 1-hectare (2.5-acre) island in the Sound of Papa, between Papa Stour and the Mainland of Shetland. It lies adjacent to a skerry called...
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Ward Holm. Eday: Green Holm, Red Holm, Rusk Holm. Egilsay: Kili Holm. Eynhallow: Sheep Skerry. Gairsay: Holm of Boray, Holm of Rendall, Little Seal Skerry...
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[permanent dead link] Orkneyjar. Retrieved 17 July 2012. "Info Board, Holm of Papa Westray Cairn" Wikimedia Commons/Historic Scotland. Retrieved 17 July...
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Maeshowe (redirect from Maes Howe - Heart of Neolithic Orkney)
Vinquoy Hill is located on Eday. Finally, there is an unnamed tomb on the Holm of Papa Westray. Anna Ritchie reports that there are three more Maeshowe-type...
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Orkney (redirect from Swedish earldom of Orkney)
include Calf of Eday, Damsay, Eynhallow, Faray, Helliar Holm, Holm of Faray, Holm of Huip, Holm of Papa, Holm of Scockness, Kili Holm, Linga Holm, Muckle Green...
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chamber of Holm of Papa Westray South cairn is over 20 metres long. The Bookan type is named after a cairn found to the north-west of the Ring of Brodgar...
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Fore Holm is the name of three of the Shetland Islands. Fore Holm, Weisdale Voe between Reawick and Hoy, Shetland Forewick Holm off Papa Stour Crown Dependency...
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Skerry of Bag, West Head of Papa. Papa Stour; Aesha Stack, Boinna Skerry, Borse Skerry, Brei Holm, Fogla Skerry, Forewick Holm, Galti Stacks, Holm of Melby...
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Eilean dà Mhèinn, Eilean Tioram, Holm of Grimbister and Inner Holm. These following are listed by the National Records of Scotland as "included in the NRS...
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Papa Stronsay (Scots: Papa Stronsee; Old Norse: Papey Minni) is a small island in Orkney, Scotland, lying north east of Stronsay. It is 74 hectares (183...
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chambered cairn on the Holm of Papa. Archaeologist Richard Strachan has said: Initial comparisons do show a similarity in use of this eyebrow motif and...
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Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland, with a population of under fifteen people, some of whom immigrated after an appeal for residents...
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Eynhallow Faray and Holm of Faray Glims Moss and Durkadale, Mainland Holm of Papa Westray Hoy Keelylang Hill and Swartabeck Burn, Mainland Loch of Banks, Mainland...
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Holm of Melby is a small uninhabited island off Mainland, Shetland in Scotland. It lies in the Sound of Papa just offshore from the settlement of Melby...
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Rousay"[permanent dead link] Orkneyjar. Retrieved 17 July 2012. "Info Board, Holm of Papa Westray Cairn" Wikimedia Commons/Historic Scotland. Retrieved 17 July...
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sited by the shore of Loch of Harray, Orkney Mainland, Scotland, not far from the Standing Stones of Stenness, about 5 miles north-east of Stromness. It was...
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Celeste Holm (April 29, 1917 – July 15, 2012) was an American stage, film and television actress. Holm won an Academy Award for her performance in Elia...
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Petrosomatoglyph (section Mary, the mother of Jesus)
carved lines, some of which appear to be stylised oculi. Pecked carvings of "eyebrows" are found on a lintel inside Holm of Papa Westray south chambered...
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The Knowe of Swandro is an archaeological site located on the Bay of Swandro on Rousay in Orkney, Scotland. The site consists of a 5000-year-old Neolithic...
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the care of Historic Environment Scotland (HES). HES (Scottish Gaelic: Àrainneachd Eachdraidheil Alba) is a non-departmental public body of the Scottish...
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Knowe of Yarso chambered cairn is a Neolithic burial monument located on the island of Rousay in Orkney, Scotland. The site was excavated in the 1930s...
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Anna Ritchie (archaeologist) (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
Birsay, the Neolithic farmstead of Knap of Howar on Papa Westray and a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Holm of Papa Westray. As well as publishing widely...
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emergence of landscape-scale ceremonial complexes. Other chambered tombs of significance include those at Unstan and Bookan on the Mainland and Holm of Papa Westray...
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Instructor, Northern Ireland Prison Service. John Rendall, Key Keeper, Holm of Papa and Knap of Howar, Orkney, Scottish Office. David John Rennels, Sub Officer...
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Blackhammer Chambered Cairn is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on the island of Rousay, in Orkney, Scotland. The tomb, constructed around 3000 BC, is a Orkney–Cromarty...
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