<< Our Photo Pages >> Corn Hillock - Cairn in Scotland in Orkney
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Corn HillockCountry: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Stromness Nearest Village: Stenness
Map Ref: HY28481015
Latitude: 58.972512N Longitude: 3.245611W
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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HY21SE 99 Corn is from a Norse word for cows. This grassy mound does not appear to have had specific mention before the 1998 coastal survey (assuming the cairn below Cumminess referred to in 1907 is Cummi Howe broch). EASE hazards that it is the remains of some kind of settlement, perhaps a broch (it looks equidistant between Cummi Howe broch and The Cairns 'Danish fort'/castle - though it is 8m from the cliff edge the other sites could have suffered more erosion, one tideswept and the other ? subject to undercutting - and on the other side of the water we have three brochs too) because of an apparent 15m central hollow [not so central in my image from the road]. It is some 33m by 20m and 1.6m in height. They found stone concentrations at various places and some protruding earthfast stones, also evidence of quarrying about the edge. As yet I have only viewed it from the coastal fence, where I noticed what seems to be an overgrown trench (either excavated or for sheltering stock I think) by the northern end with various materials around the sides. In the image I took the stones are mostly horizontal slabs, perhaps evidence of drystane walling. But I wish I had gone in to inspect as my images show up on the southern end a large ? orthostat and low down on the northern end a rectangular sandstone block that may have an incised line around the face of it. The orthostat's position is an unlikely one in a broch (my hazard would be pre or post "Broch Age") and the block resembles ones I connect with early kirks (there is one in a wall by Long Howe that has to come from St. Ninian's Chapel and another in the Sands of Wideford bridge I take to have come from Essonquoy). Best guess is that Corn Hillock is the result of two periods of construction.
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