<< Our Photo Pages >> Little Howe of Hoxa - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney
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Multi-periodSite Name: Little Howe of Hoxa Alternative Name: Uppertown, Howe FarmCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 6.854 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: St Margaret's Hope
Map Ref: ND42439403
Latitude: 58.829876N Longitude: 2.998855W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Orkneyabandoned visited on 23rd Sep 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4
Little Howe of Hoxa, NMRS record no. ND49SW 2, lies literally just around the coastline from the Howe of Hoxa broch and can be easily seen from the short stretch of road running from the Dam of Hoxa to the Sand o'Wright. It is so close that I'm amazed I missed it on previous visits. In June 1871 George Petrie excavated this, and after he left Mr Gray of Roeberry (who had partially dug the chambered mound on Warthill the previous year) continued to clear it out and (it was believed) make further exploration. Petrie found an approximately circular structure with two concentic wall enclosing a space of ~21'D. The 4' thick outer wall was seperated from the inner by a 2' high passage tapering from 18~20" below the covering stones to 16" wide at the base where it met bedrock at one place.. A 20' long passage and doorway went all the way through the structure, standing 4' high and being 2½' wide. Traditionally a passage connected with the Howe of Hoxa, but no trace found of this at the time or since. Presently the site is called a homestead and thought to be either early broch or pre-broch, but the finds made seem to me to be as likely from a Viking wirk or borg - perhap not a "green site" still. It is notable that none of the newspaper reports refer to it as a broch. There is a way in still, an archaeologist friend of mine entered the hole even though it is generally considered dangerous to do so. A wall post-dating the excavation goes across part of the homestead. Little Howe of Hoxa may simply be a name used to differentiate the ruined dwelling from Howe.
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