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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Stackrue
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Stromness  Nearest Village: Stenness
Map Ref: HY271151  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 59.016721N  Longitude: 3.271243W
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
 3 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
0No data.
 3 Accuracy:
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
0no data
 3

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Stackrue submitted by howar : Stackrue Broch wall , best section . Orkney HY271151 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Broch in Orkney

Carrying on past the Ring of Brodgar and over the hill on which Buckan stands it is easy to miss the Lyking road on the left as the signpost is that small. Going past the farm of Lyking on the right Stackrue Broch comes into view. First impression is that this stands a little higher than Oxtro but the stones are smaller. Just the usual "remnants of broch" then. Nearer and I see the other end and am surprised by the size of the blocks in the wall here and how bright they look. This is the actual broch wall standing several courses tall. Looking back it is obvious I am seeing structures from at least two periods. Only now am I struck by what should have struck me from the start, a large deep ditch running around the site. Somewhere about the middle of the building I think I see a void behind some slabs. The 'broch' end in the ditch against the bank are several large slabs of stone and nearer the road a few what look like standing stones. [ On the Monday I find out the other side of the road is a subterranean passage and a little distance away and closer to the loch lie, or lay, the turf footings of a chapel and a burial ground ] .
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Stackrue-Lyking Mound
Stackrue-Lyking Mound submitted by howar : my first view of quadrant feature (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stackrue submitted by howar : fallen lintels obscure passage, masonry wall top left quadrant (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Stackrue submitted by howar : masonry wall of built passage behind grass fringe (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stackrue-Lyking Mound
Stackrue-Lyking Mound submitted by howar : mound viewed parallel to fieldwall seperating it from broch site (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stackrue-Lyking Mound
Stackrue-Lyking Mound submitted by howar : Burn of Lyking in front of mound (Vote or comment on this photo)

Stackrue-Lyking Mound
Stackrue-Lyking Mound submitted by howar : mound with drystane wall across burn

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Stackrue submitted by howar : top of broch mound

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Stackrue submitted by howar : from top of broch mound to W end

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Stackrue submitted by howar : E end 'ditch' surrounding broch tower

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Stackrue submitted by howar : outer broch wall at W end of site

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Stackrue submitted by howar : broch tower wall seen from NW

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Stackrue submitted by howar : W end from N with broch tower wall

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Stackrue submitted by howar : from W end to E end from inside field

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Stackrue submitted by howar : W end of broch site

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Stackrue submitted by howar : W end of broch showing outer wall

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Stackrue submitted by howar : eastern half of broch mound from road

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Stackrue submitted by howar : west half of broch mound from road

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Stackrue submitted by howar : extent of main area . Orkney HY271151

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Stackrue submitted by howar : View from broch wall end . Orkney HY271151

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Stackrue submitted by howar : Stackrue central section . Orkney HY271151

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Re: Stackrue by howar on Monday, 12 April 2010
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Don't know how I missed the entrance to the ?souterrain before, just inside the fence on the S side of the road at HY2706715113. Guess I looked for a channel further down whereas it starts as a hole like a badgers set (no sign of the masonry walls in the dark) literally a couple of feet from the actual fence behind three flat stones. I assume these are a few of the lintels from the intermittent roof of the built passage. This is described as 800cm square to begin with, though perhaps narrow further on - it goes SE'erly to a ditch but after some 2.5m turns quickly eastwards and then the hillslope and presence of mud stopped investigations progressing to what they describe as the inner end (or else it goes ~100m down to the loch). By the western stone I could see a masonry wall of thin stones behind a grass fringe. Not wishing to disturb the ploughman in the next field I left matters there. This side of the road the 'broken' mound is ascribed to outbuildings on account of projecting stones but it is obvious that the passage is within the tower's circuit - at The Howe we found a souterrain which had been struck through the tomb at the centre of the broch so the road might have demolished a northerly continuance.
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