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Barnhouse Settlement
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Barnhouse Settlement submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Barnhouse Settlement HY306127. Probably in use around the same time of Skara Brae.
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Watch Stone (Orkney)
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Watch Stone (Orkney) submitted by swatson on 18th Jul 2004. Situated 170m NNW of the Stones of Stennes is the Watch Stone; an impressive monolith 5.6m high, dating back to the 3rd millenium BC.
OS HY306125
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Ring of Brodgar
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 14th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Ring of Brodgar submitted by SandyG on 8th Oct 2015. Southern part of the stone circle. (2nd June 2015).
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Skara Brae
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Skara Brae submitted by megalithicmatt on 8th Jan 2012. Looking out over Bay of Skaill.
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Roseness
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 16th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Roseness submitted by howar on 4th May 2007. western view of North Cairn
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Log Text: This cairn is prominent on the headland, and can be seen from Taracliff bay cliffs to the north east, and from the southern island headlands
Brough of Deerness
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 18th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 2
Brough of Deerness submitted by howar on 8th Apr 2007. Entire brough, vallum LH, chapel RH top
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Log Text: you can view from the mainland but the path is closed due to repairs needed.
Knap of Howar
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Access 3
Knap of Howar submitted by PaulH on 19th Mar 2003.
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Holm of Papa Westray South
Date Added: 14th May 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 13th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Holm of Papa Westray South submitted by jeffrep on 1st Aug 2010. Original Entrance to the Holm of Papa Westray South Chambered Cairn, Orkney, Scotland
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Log Text: the cairn is prominent on the island and can also be seen from much of Papa Westray.
Is dark inside and hard to get good photos-Jeffreps are much better than mine.
Holm of Papa Westray North
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Holm of Papa Westray North submitted by PAB on 8th Mar 2019. The North Cairn on Holm of Papa Westray.
June 2016
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Cubbie Roo's Burden
Date Added: 26th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Cubbie Roo's Burden submitted by TimPrevett on 4th Aug 2006. The remaining mound of Cubbie Roo's Burden, a chambered cairn, as viewed from the roadside. The purpose of my visit to Orkney was to recce most of the major sites, but in true megarak spirit, I had to look at or at least photo any 'lesser' monuments I passed. This was one of them.
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Stone 'O Quoybune
Date Added: 30th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 17th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stone 'O Quoybune submitted by howar on 25th Jan 2004. Wheebin standing stone , HY253263 Orkney
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Howe Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 13th Jul 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 15th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition -1 Ambience 4
Howe Chambered Tomb submitted by drolaf on 9th Jul 2022. The mound at Howe before excavation. (Ballin-Smith 1994)
http://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/around-the-ness-howe/
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Log Text: although the site is demolished, the ambience in terms of views is very good, NE over Unstan to Brodgar and the hills beyond at Staneyhill quarry and chambered tomb, and SW to the Hoy hills.
Links of Noltland
Date Added: 27th Jun 2023
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 23rd Jun 2023. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Links of Noltland submitted by SandyG on 17th Jun 2015. Bronze Age house. Note the slab lined tank adjacent to the doorway and the absence of paving slabs around the entrance. (12th June 2015).
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Log Text: the site is covered with old tarp and stones, but a couple of houses you can see the central hearths.
Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Isbister: Tomb Of The Eagles submitted by cosmic on 20th Feb 2005. Exiting the Tomb
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Banks Chambered Tomb
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Would like to visit
Banks Chambered Tomb submitted by howar on 17th Jul 2011. Western chamber repaired. not yet excavated to floor level, as can be seen by height of deposits by LH side of pasage
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Maes Howe
Date Added: 8th Jul 2023
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 3rd Jul 2023. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Maes Howe submitted by howar on 24th Sep 2013. distant Maes Howe ablaze with sun, viewed from the bird hut near the Barnhouse settlement
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Log Text: I visited the mound in 2022 and inside 2023. you aren't allowed to take photos inside.
The tour guide was up to date and covered the neolithic and much later norse visitors and runes. There is a very good article on the passage alignment in the 2023 issue of the Orkney Archaeology review £10.
https://shop.orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/product-category/books/
Their website has lots more info on Maes and Orkney and it is only £15 to join, £10 for pensioners (you get sent the annual review)
Barp Reineval
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Barp Reineval submitted by SandyG on 23rd May 2016. View from the south east (28 August 2015).
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Log Text: Capstone 1.5m x 1.8m 0.3m thick plus adjacent stone 1.2m x 0.6 x 0.6 m
views of mountains to east. view west blocked.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue8/cummings/reineval1.html
Panorama
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue8/cummings/qtvr/reinev/reinev.htm
Pollachar
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 4 Access 5
Pollachar submitted by h_fenton on 20th Jul 2006. Pollachar standing stone, South Uist. view from south west, showing proximity to the Pollachar Inn behind
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Frobost chambered cairn
Date Added: 4th Jun 2024
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (South Uist)
Visited: Yes on 1st Jun 2024. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Frobost chambered cairn submitted by drolaf on 4th Jun 2024. view of cairn from SE
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Log Text: i noticed there were lots of pink quartz crystaline rocks mixed with the grey boulders
Pierce Wood Camp 1
Date Added: 28th Jul 2019
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Wales (Monmouthshire)
Visited: Yes on 4th Mar 2016
Pierce Wood Camp 1 submitted by drolaf on 4th Mar 2016. View from Piercefield SE over the Severn.
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