Elsness, a promontory in Sanda island, Orkney. Projecting 1½ mile southward from the main body of the parish, and flanking the W side of Stywick Bay, it commands an extensive sea-view, and is crowned by more than twenty vitrified cairns, supposed by Dr Hibbert to have been signal stations of the Norsemen for communicating with their fleets.
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