Rendall or Norseman or Isbister

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Reference WMO/155988

Address:

A966

Rendall

Orkney

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Cairn
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: The memorial is lcoated North of Norseman Village. Square-based flagstone rubble cairn with inset polished pink granite plaque, with lettering engraved and painted black, and inset cross formed of flagstone. Surmounted by square-based rubble pyramid. Pedestal formed of two flagstone rubble levels. Rests on concrete base enclosed on three sides by low flagstone rubble walls, pointed with lime mortar, terminating with square piers with stepped pyramid cappings. Accessed from roadside via two concrete steps, flanked by very low flagstone rubble walls. The memorial is also known as Norseman or Ibister on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland but Rendall on IWM and SWMP. It is just north of a village named on google maps as Norseman. More details and better photos on SWMP Link
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ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN MEMORY OF WHO FELL IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR 1914 – 1919. “THEY HEARD THE MOTHER’S CALL, AND WERE NOT SLACK TO RUSH FORTH TO HER AID, THEY CAME NOT BACK.”

JOHN W. YORSTON, WM. BRASS, HENRY HAY, DAVID SPENCE, ALF. OSBORNE

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