Mine Howe is an Iron Age subterranean man-made chamber dug 6 meters deep inside a large mound. It is located in the Tankerness area of Orkney, Scotland, about 5 miles southeast of Kirkwall, the capital of Orkney. Mine Howe is situated 2½ miles northwest of Gears.

Braebuster

House

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Braebuster is a house, which is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Gears.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Holm and Tankerness.

Holm

Locality

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Holm, also spelled Ham, is a parish on Mainland, Orkney. An adjacent Sound, running between Mainland, and Burray, is named after Holm. It has since been blocked up by the Churchill Barriers. Holm is situated 3 miles west of Gears.

Tankerness

Village

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Tankerness is a district in the St Andrews parish in Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. Essentially a peninsula, it is about 13 kilometres south-east of Kirkwall and 1 kilometre east of Kirkwall Airport. Tankerness is situated 3 miles northwest of Gears.

Rose Ness

Locality

Photo: Mark Crook, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rose Ness is a locality, which is situated 3 miles south of Gears.

Gears

Type: Farm
Category: agriculture
Location: Orkney Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

58.91742° or 58° 55′ 3″ north

Longitude

-2.8014° or 2° 48′ 5″ west

Open location code

9CCVW58X+XC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 646030617

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=farmyard

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