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- ↑ Owen, Olwyn; Lowe, Christopher (1999). Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story of One Shetland Township. Society Antiquaries Scotland. p. 300. ISBN 978-0-903903-14-1 . Retrieved 5 February 2013.
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