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Beside the Ocean

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Beside the Ocean

By David Griffiths, Jane Harrison, Michael Athanson

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About the book

The Bay of Skaill, Marwick Bay, and Birsay Bay form openings in the high sandstone cliffs of Orkney's Atlantic coast. These west-facing bays have long been favoured locations for settlement, with access to the ocean, to fresh water, to land and to resources for cultivation. The coastline of Orkney's North-West Mainland is recognised worldwide as a location of exceptional archaeological importance, dominated by the Neolithic world heritage site of Skara Brae, and the Viking-Norse remains on the t...Show more

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9781789250961

Publisher

Oxbow Books

Published year

2019

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1

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Beside the Ocean

Format

Hardcover

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