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Historical
Tour - Slide List
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Slide
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Description |
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Village
Bay from above
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The
Village seen from the East |
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Village
from the West showing the Factor's House. |
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The
incised cross built into House 16 |
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A
view of the 19th c. houses together with the older blackhouses and
cleitean. |
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Remains
of a black house from the 1830s. |
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The
head dyke behind the Village. |
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Some
of the cleitean which are found all over the islands |
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The
Earth House, Known as Taigh an t-Sithiche ('House of the Fairies').
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The
graveyard in Village Bay |
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The
Factor's House, now used by the SNH warden. |
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The
church (built in the 1830s) with the more recent attached schoolroom. |
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The
Jetty (with Store in background). |
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The
Store |
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Close
up of the Gun which was installed during the First World War. |
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Behind
the Village, below the slopes of Oiseval and Conachair is An Lag Bho'n
Tuath. |
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The
remains of an aircraft - one of three which crashed on the islands
during the Second World War. |
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The
stone structure known as the Amazon's House located in Gleann Bay
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These
complex stone structures in Gleann Mor were latterly used as seasonal
dwellings with attached sheep folds. |
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Between
Hirta and Soay lies Stac Biorrach, which the St Kildans climbed to
collect seabirds' eggs. |
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Soay
lit by the sun. |
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The
Lover's Stone. |
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The
Mistress Stone. |
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Platforms
on Ruaival. |
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Dun
from Mullach Sgar. |
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Stac
An Armin, Stac Lee and Boreray from Hirta. |
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Gentler
grassy slopes on Boreray. |
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A
group of cleitean on Boreray. |
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Stac
an Armin (644 feet / 196m high). |
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A
Great Auk specimen in Glasgow Museums. |
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Remains
of the bothy on Stac Lee used by the St Kildans while harvesting gannets. |