Memorials & monuments · Scottish Islands
Tofts Ness, cairns, enclosures and field systems, Sanday
Tofts Ness, cairns, enclosures and field systems, Sanday in Orkney + Shetland, United Kingdom.
George Brown — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 15 min–45 min
About
Tofts Ness, cairns, enclosures and field systems, Sanday 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
Tofts Ness is a peninsula located on the north-east tip of the island of Sanday in Orkney, Scotland. It encompasses a prehistoric site which shows evidence of human occupation beginning in the late Neolithic Age and continuing through the Iron Age. The scheduled monument consists of mounds, cairns, enclosures, ancient soils and structural remains. Tofts Ness is also the location of multiple shipwrecks.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
- Coordinates
- 59.3091, -2.4224
- Address
- Sanday, Orkney
Sources
- wikidata: Q56667486 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Tofts Ness (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Tofts Ness, cairns, enclosures and field systems, Sanday?
- Tofts Ness, cairns, enclosures and field systems, Sanday is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 59.3091°, -2.4224°.