Archaeological sites · Scottish Islands
Orkney hood
Orkney hood in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 45 min–1.5 h
About
Orkney hood is a place of interest in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Orkney Hood is an Iron Age garment, now in the collection of National Museums Scotland. It is in the form of a woollen hood with tablet-woven trim and fringe. The hood was found in 1867, in a peat bog in Tankerness, within the parish of St. Andrews in the Orkney Islands.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 58.9426, -2.8737
Sources
- wikidata: Q21051423 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Orkney Hood (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Orkney hood?
- Orkney hood is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 58.9426°, -2.8737°.