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<< Our Photo Pages >> Russel Howe - Cairn in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Sunday, 28 July 2013  Page Views: 2859

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Russel Howe Alternative Name: Rossel Howe, West Bain Rossel/Russel
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Stromness  Nearest Village: Dounby
Map Ref: HY24842016
Latitude: 59.061758N  Longitude: 3.312318W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Russel Howe
Russel Howe submitted by howar : LH side diagonal view of Rossel Howe - erect slab is not actually square to cairn (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Orkney

Coming up towards West Bain in Sandwick, near the Bay of Skaill, and two fields to your left a wall made of oversized stones can be seen at the high point. This 13x3x2 m wall was constructed from the Rossel Howe Cairn material (HY22SW 5) some time after the Orkney Name Book of 1880 (the ONB actually places two tumuli here). During the demolition human remains were found in a cist. At the south-east end two stones, one approx 2.3x0.6 m fallen the other approx 2.3x0.8 m still erect, are thought likely parts of a chamber. The western side facing the road there is still a rise, and I wonder if the cairn overlay something else or if this is the ONB's other tumulus.
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Russel Howe
Russel Howe submitted by howar : prostrate slab against front of Rossel Howe (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : front of Rossel Howe with erect and prostrate slab (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : looking across front of Rossel Howe, erect slab with prostrate slab visible (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : the erect slab in the edge of Rossel Howe (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : front of Rossel Howe with erect and full length of prostrate slab

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : diagonal view of front, as I believe, of Rossel Howe with erect and prostrate slab

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : pile of cairn material by Rossel Howe

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : RH side of Rossel Howe

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : looking at the end of Rossel Howe over what might be the second cairns remains

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : the rise Rossel Howe sits on - artificial ?

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : Rossel Howe with Hoy in the distance

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Russel Howe submitted by howar : Getting off at Skara Brae car park and surprised to see Rossel Howe visible on the skyline - surely no coincidence, and it looks over the whole valley (1 comment)

Russel Howe
Russel Howe submitted by howar : Cairn remains with rise at left

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Re: Russel Howe by howar on Monday, 28 December 2015
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st north of the Sandwick war memorial take the road going east through the Midstowe and Netherstove. Before reaching Netherstove take the diagonal track up to the minor road and turn right. The Rossel Howe wall is plain to see two fields east of the road. I didn't realise you can walk straight up to it (the fence is practically gone) and so came around the edge ofa field. Looking at the rise atop the hill the cairn sits on I woner if it isn't man-made. At the southern end is a pile of stones that could be the remains of the second cairn, badly robbed for stone. Rossel Howe cairn is a rectangle with well rounded corners, feeling almost oval to me. There is another pile of stones at the other end of the cairn, buth this is obviously leftovers and parts that have come off the wall. The stones are very different from the two slabs, which are mostly white. It doesn't come out well in my photos that the erect slab sticks out from the cairn material at an angle of, say, 45 degrees. It is said the two slabs could have been parts of a cell. But there must have been a reason why they are where they are, and given the angle of the slab it strikes me that whoever built the wall was surely marking for posterity the place where the entrance had been (in which case could it even be in its original position ?). Standing at Rossel Howe there is a grand view almost the whole way around, and the mound is easily seen coming up to Skail. Indeed, because this day the hill was distinctly multi-coloured I was ablt to see it as I walked several miles towards Twatt and retracing my steps several more going to Stromness. If you wish to avoid the roads the set of tracks going by the site of the 'Snusgar' excavations takes you to the Netherstove farm road.
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