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Photo Pages: Newark (Orkney) - Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by wideford on Wednesday, 02 May 2007 Page Views: 1397
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 Site Name: Newark (Orkney) Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House)
Nearest Town: Kirkwall Nearest Village: Deerness
Map Ref: HY57460413
Latitude: 58.922323N Longitude: 2.740496W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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 | | 0 | No data. |
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Accuracy:| 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 | | 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town | | 0 | no data |
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Souterrain (Fogou, Earth House) in Orkney
Mainly known as the site of the 16th century Neu Wark of Deerness and a Norse chapel dated to the 10th, but there were two souterrains found beneath the latter. Apart from the synopsis for RCAHMS NMRS record no. HY50SE 3 there is next to nothing published. The best source covers only the first two years, but includes dig diaries with plans for 1969-70 by two ex-diggers [http://www.hopkinsweb.org.uk/orkney/index.htm].
There the published souterrain (London Institute of London bulletin 44, which I haven't found) appears as a tunnel that ended up in a chamber, with a skeleton on a ?platform, at about the fifty foot mark i.e. far beyond the chapel itself. The NMRS has it is 10m and described as lying E/W, though the long curving passage is nearer N/S where it exited at the cliff. Looking at a 1969 plan I think the other earth-house is a pillared one like Yinstay, shown as a patch of "bare earth with irregular stones."
The chapel survives to several courses as the larger of the structures between the present steading and the sea, and the souterrain is open (though partly filled with stones) at the western side of the interior. Its course starts at the back and slews across at a slight angle to the chapel wall. I was unable to see where it comes out the cliff despite knowing the position.
Photos of the entire site, with a goodly portion of the cliff face either side of the main remains, can be found at http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/circlesettler/photos. Unfortunately without end of excavation plans I am unable to put names to most features.
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 Newark (Orkney) submitted by wideford
extreme L is souterrain coming in under north-west corner of chapel
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