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<< Our Photo Pages >> Plumcake Mound - Round Barrow(s) in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Thursday, 03 June 2004  Page Views: 7719

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Plumcake Mound
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Finstown  Nearest Village: Stenness
Map Ref: HY295135  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 59.002759N  Longitude: 3.228947W
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.
 2 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.
 5 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
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Plumcake Mound
Plumcake Mound submitted by howar : Plumcake Mound viewed from road - Orkney HY295135. Supposedly an early archaeologists' name for it rather than a local one, this is the knowe opposite the modern entrance to the Ring of Brodgar and slap bang alongside the car park. At one time two short cists were extracted from the mound, but unfortunately having been excavated many times all that is left is the many inroads that now make its ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Round Barrow in Orkney


Supposedly an early archaeologists' name for it rather than a local one, this is the knowe opposite the modern entrance to the Ring of Brodgar and slap bang alongside the car park. At one time two short cists were extracted from the mound, but unfortunately having been excavated many times all that is left is the many inroads that now make its appearance so interesting. Contrast that with the basically featureless Fresh Knowe (HY296134) back down the road a little - though there is mention of traces of horns at the south and east corners- and this was at some time the the subject of an abortive excavation (however mention of a cist is believed in error for Salt Knowe behind the ring).
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Plumcake Mound submitted by howar : looking east across Plumcake Mound (Vote or comment on this photo)

Plumcake Mound
Plumcake Mound submitted by howar : Plumcake Mound from the giddy heights of Fresh Knowe, with The Brecks cairns on top of hill left background (Vote or comment on this photo)

Plumcake Mound
Plumcake Mound submitted by howar : Fresh Knowe to Plumcake seen from E end of Sandwick parish boundary, smooth gradient is (?all) from roadbuilding (Vote or comment on this photo)

Plumcake Mound
Plumcake Mound submitted by howar : seen from E end of Sandwick parish boundary (Vote or comment on this photo)

Plumcake Mound
Plumcake Mound submitted by howar : looking onto 'interior' see text Orkney HY295135

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 148m SE 137° Fresh Knowe* Long Barrow (HY29601339)
 158m SSW 197° Ring of Brodgar* Stone Circle (HY29451335)
 226m SE 143° Comet Stone (Orkney)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY2963413318)
 237m SSW 201° South Knowe* Artificial Mound (HY29411328)
 282m SW 224° Salt Knowe* Round Barrow(s) (HY293133)
 522m S 186° Fairy Well (Stenness)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (HY2943212982)
 590m SSW 196° Possible large stone circle in Loch of Stenness Stone Circle (HY2933112934)
 607m WNW 296° Wasbister Burnt Mound* Artificial Mound (HY28961378)
 631m WNW 287° Wasbister Disc Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (HY289137)
 631m WNW 287° Dyke o'Sean* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY289137)
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 1.1km WNW 303° Bookan* Chambered Tomb (HY286141)
 1.1km SE 127° Lochview Mound* Cairn (HY304128)
 1.2km NW 311° The Brecks* Cairn (HY286143)
 1.4km SE 128° Watch Stone (Orkney)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY30551264)
 1.5km ESE 121° Barnhouse Settlement* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY30761270)
 1.5km SE 129° Stenness* Stone Circle (HY30671252)
 1.5km NW 305° Skae Frue* Round Barrow(s) (HY28241440)
 1.6km NW 309° Ring of Bookan* Henge (HY283145)
 1.7km ENE 64° Grimston Broch* Broch or Nuraghe (HY310142)
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Re: Plumcake Mound by coldrum on Sunday, 04 April 2010
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Re: Plumcake Mound by howar on Saturday, 22 September 2007
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Prior to Farrer's 1854 excavation this was an apparently untouched tumulus, about five feet high with very steep sides, but subsequent (unrecorded) digs have removed all recognisable traces of his work. He and Petrie found cists at the south and north sides 2-3 feet down. The former, about 6 feet from the centre, measured 2'6"x2'x2'1" internally, but had side slabs 5'10" long and an irregular capstone 4' by 2'6". This cist had been sealed with clay, but the 1½" thick flags were much deteriorated and at odd angles. Within this a large steatite urn sat upon the meeting of four slabs and contained burnt bones and ashes. On the other side of the barrow they found a slightly smaller cist, at 2'9½" by 1'7", that held a small clay-and-gravel urn. The urn held only a few small pieces of stone, being mostly filled with what is described as soil. It fell apart in Kirkwal. However there were many bones laid on a flag in the NW corner beneath fine soil. This last Petrie mentions in his newspaper account but noy the P.S.A.S. paper. Petrie reports the later finding of a broken pestle (??macehead, perhaps THM 1985.34 ??) and a stone vessel with two rows of ringmarks like those seen about the steatite urn.
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Re: Plumcake Mound by howar on Thursday, 20 September 2007
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oops, that should read NW. Source his 1862 book mostly on the Maes Howe descriptions.
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Re: Plumcake Mound by howar on Thursday, 20 September 2007
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Farrer's own account states that the majority of the bones in the SW corner of the second cist were laid on the flag rather than inside the urn as Petrie reported. Taken with the fact that the flags of the first are descibed as much decayed this would seem to indicate re-use after a considerable interval
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