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<< Our Photo Pages >> Stackrue-Lyking Mound - Misc. Earthwork in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Thursday, 05 May 2005  Page Views: 4449

Multi-periodSite Name: Stackrue-Lyking Mound
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.6 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Orkney Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Stromness  Nearest Village: Dounby
Map Ref: HY27121514
Latitude: 59.017084N  Longitude: 3.270908W
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.
3 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
4

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Stackrue-Lyking Mound
Stackrue-Lyking Mound submitted by howar : mound with drystane wall across burn (Vote or comment on this photo)
Misc. Earthwork in Orkney

Though this would appear to be a continuation of the broch settlement it is not presently recorded and may instead relate to a vanished mound from which a Viking burial came (RCAHMS NMRS record no. HY21NE 4). This is currently indicated on CANMAP at HY271152 but does not appear on the 1882 map like the 1852 Viking cists do (HY21NE 8 at HY27051532, but on the 1882 O.S. at HY26961532), unlike this earthwork.
Coming towards the broch from Lyking, where the Burn of Lyking passes under the field wall, I saw a short line of good stones along the bank running to the field wall at an acute angle. There appears to be remains of another bank wall over in the broch field section of the stream too. Going in for a closer look at these I saw that there is an earthwork with stones, taking the shape of a circular quadrant rising from the burn, occupying the field corner this side of Lyking against a loop of the stream [it may be relevant that CANMAP shows mound of the Viking burial as having been in the next loop, north of this]. There appears to be an inner ditch below the top of the rise and the mound's arc appears to continue on the other side of the road, though no earthwork is shown there on the first O.S. map. In 1882 a ford is shown at this area of the burn and the subterranean passage is indicated downhill from this area.


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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)

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)

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
HY2715 : The road to Voy by John Ireland
by John Ireland
©2007(licence)
HY2615 : Lane to Lyking by Ian Balcombe
by Ian Balcombe
©2009(licence)
HY2615 : Orcadian Dyke by Ian Balcombe
by Ian Balcombe
©2009(licence)
HY2715 : Lyking by John Ireland
by John Ireland
©2007(licence)
HY2615 : Blind Summit by Ian Balcombe
by Ian Balcombe
©2009(licence)

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