Mount Misery, Start Point

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Mount Misery, Start Point is one of 38 chambered tombs the Albion Guide charts in Orkney Islands. Other chambered tombs nearby include Quoyness, Els Ness, Sanday, Earls Knoll and Chambered cairn near Carrick House, Eday.

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