Weather vane, Dunstable Farm
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Weather vane, Dunstable Farm
Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 31 Jul 2010
The weather vane is to be found on the corner of the farm buildings. The farm buildings cross the gridline. On their ships, the Vikings replaced their fabric flags with flat metal quadrant weathervanes (9th century), giving clues to the origin of the word 'weathervane'. The word 'vane' (formerly spelt fane) means pennon or flag. The German equivalent being fahne.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.096313
Longitude
-1.684339