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Shetlopedia - The Shetland Encyclopaedia
- About this time the famous St Ninians Isle Treasure was buried.
- The following three seperate and somewhat different records of wreck(s) exist, which also share common factors of date and location name etc. Thus it is probably reasonable to suspect that they may all pertain to the same incident. a) An unidentified vessel, possibly laden with a cargo of horses, wrecked on Robbie Ramsay's Baa (formerly Skibbie Baa) at the north entrance to Bressay Sound. b) An unidentified vessel is recorded as having wrecked at a location described as "Skibbi Geo", Papa Stour. It has not been possible so far to locate a site known as "Skibbi Geo" on Papa Stour. c) An unidentified vessel, possibly laden with a cargo of horses is recorded as having wrecked at a location described as "Skiba Geo", Hamar, Unst. It has not been possible so far to locate a site known as "Skiba Geo" on Unst, nor has it been possible to locate a site known as "Hamar", the nearest approximate named location would be the Keen of Hamar and the names of two crofts immediately to its south.
