A Peedie Bit O' Orkney...
Still on Hoy, and still among the monuments, but a couple of tombs of interest this time...
First of all, The Dwarfie Stane, a tomb cut out of a huge rock...
First of all, The Dwarfie Stane, a tomb cut out of a huge rock...

You can read a bit more here: www.orkney.org/tradition/dwarfie.htm
And then a sad story... In the middle of the island, on the border between two districts, stands a lonely grave - The last resting place of Betty Corrigall, a local girl from long ago, who found herself pregnant by a sailor who then deserted her. She committed suicide, and because of that, could not be buried on consecrated ground, and neither district wanted responsibility for her, so she was buried on the dividing line...

Read the full story here: http://www.orkneyjar.com/history/historicalfigures/bettycorrigall/index.html
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