Old Photograph Gentlemen's Ha' Cave Westray Orkney Scotland

Old photograph of Gentlemen's Ha' cave, Westray, Orkney Islands, Scotland. This Scottish cave is near the top of a cliff on the East coast of Rapness. It was here that several Orkney Jacobites lay concealed for several months in 1745, and while in the cave they depended for food upon a single person's stealthy visits to their hiding place. The cave was the main refuge in 1746 of four Jacobites lairds, William Balfour of Trenaby; Archibald Stewart of Brough; John Traill of Westness and John Traill of Elsness.



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