Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary

Dunnet Head

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DUNNET HEAD (R4x32) 4C set Peter Knight Guide To SCD (ex-Collins)

1- 8 1L followed by 2L+3L+4L dance across top of set, down behind Men, across the bottom and back to places
9-16 Men repeat above Fig
17-24 All circle 8H round and back
25-32 All advance and retire for 2 steps, 1s dance down to bottom

(MINICRIB. Dance crib compiled by Charles Upton, Deeside Caledonian Society, and his successors)


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Dunnet Head is a peninsula in Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland, that includes the most northerly point of the mainland of Great Britain.

Dunnet Head most northerly point of mainland Britain
Dunnet Head


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