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Photo: Andy Hawkins — CC BY-SA 2.0. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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About Boat Sheds and Priory Ruins, Lindisfarne

On the shore of Holy Island, the fishermen of Lindisfarne turned their old wooden herring boats upside down, cut them in half and used them as sheds for nets and gear, and several of these black, tarred huts still stand by the harbour. Behind them rise the ruins of the priory and the parish church, close to where the monastery attacked by Vikings in 793 once stood. The island is still home to fewer than two hundred people, and pilgrims walk across the sands to it as the monks once did. This photo looks across the beach and the sheds to the ruined priory.

Puzzle tip: start with the dark boat sheds and the boats on the beach, then the ruins behind them and the sky.

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