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The Dining Room, Skaill House (1620), showing the dinner service used by the explorer Captain James Cook on his third and last voyage
Skaill House lies adjacent to the neolithic settlement of Skara Brae. It was built in 1620 by Bishop George Graham (Bishop of Orkney from 1615 to 1638) and is owned by the Laird of Breckness. It is open to the public via the adjacent Skara Brae site (Historic Scotland) and is shown as it would have been in the 1950s. The name Skaill is Old Norse for hall, and reflects the norse connections of the area.
Photo ID: ORK_0326_Dining_Room__Skaill_House__Orkney_R_002EA
Photo size: 21.0 Mpixels (60.2 MB uncompressed) - 5616x3744 pixels (18.7x12.5 in / 47.5x31.7 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: 1950s, antiquity, architecture, bishop, British, building, Captain James Cook, china, dinner service, exploration, explore, George Graham, Great Britain, hall, historic, historic building, Historic Scotland, history, house, island, isle, Laird of Breckness, mansion, Martin Grace, Northern Isles, Orcadian, Orkney, Orkney Islands, Orkney Isles, preservation, restoration, Skara Brae, West Mainland
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