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Video: Structure Twelve – ‘The hammer(stone) house of horrors’

Sunday, July 23, 2023 (2:35 PM)

Site director Nick Card’s 2023 pre-dig lecture in Kirkwall, recorded by Orkney Archaeology Society in June as part of their OAS Legacy Project.

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