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<< Our Photo Pages >> Vola - Round Barrow(s) in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by howar on Friday, 01 September 2006 Page Views: 4074
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Scotland
Site Name: Vola Alternative Name: Quoyer
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Finstown Nearest Village: Stenness
Map Ref: HY31471395
Latitude: 59.007120N Longitude: 3.194804W
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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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Round Barrow(s) in Orkney
RCAHMS NMRS no. HY31SW 7 has been re-assessed a few times, the large size of the central mound and the lack of sharply defined features leading to its being currently classified as an unusually proprtioned bell barrow rather than a disc barrow like Wasbister. This N/S aligned barrow was 102x85 feet with an irregular ditch of between thirteen and twenty-one feet. The platform and ~17.4m diameter mound both presently stand a metre high, and there were the remains of a 5 foot thick earthfast stone on the latter with the same orientation.
Coming up the Stoneyhill road beside Maes Howe just past where the viewpoint sign is on the left there is a footpath marked on the right. From the ridge on which the house sits with your back to the house look across the intervening field and the mound with its exposed material is there before you. Follow the path and you come round to the gate of the field in which it lies. Even in summer the outline of mound, ditch and bank is fairy obvious. Presently (August) the marshy are is dry. In the field around which the path goes are two or three mounds covered in grass that stand higher than the bell barrow, and in the tops of at least two are the tell-tale signs of antiquarian barrow-digging. I came by the side opposite the viewpoint sign aong a couple of ruts, which I do not recommend as the marsh plants stand high and their lushness hides the much pitted surface of the ground - even though dry you do not know from one step to the next how far the foot will go. I was strongly put in mind of going to the Knowes of Trotty. Then again, taking the 'marsh' into account reminded me of a 19th century antiquarian account of digging mounds at Langadae (Burn of Langa Dee): "The burn or water courses have been conducted in a meandering manner about each mound.", and further "On each of these mounds there is and was a lump of white quartz " brings to mind the disintegrating stone of the bell barrow here.
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Re: Vola (Score: 1)
by howar on Thursday, 23 April 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The site presents itself as a two-tiered mound of earth with some small stone fragments and pebbles. Taking this as a mound with platform as per the most recent official record would invite comparison with Howe Harper. The suggested platform does however form a rather large proportion of the total height, almost as deep as the upper tier. A fellow enthusiast wonders if this is all a cairn robbed of its overlying stone, and certainly there large stones gathered in nearby parts of the field, but the top looks to have been dug into - which would indicate that this is not far off its original height [or perhaps just kie at work]. With the present encircling shallow ditch and its low bank it does bring to mind a Henge, with the standing stone referred to in the original report as an outlier [like the Comet Stone(s) ?]. Present opinion is dismissive of the first report but the differences noted could well have arisen as a result of the dimensions including/excluding parts of the whole. Certainly not far outside of the present bank there is a split orthostat that could well be the remains of the 5' s.s. with the top knocked off. In this are there are middling stones on and in the ground. Some of these are embedded in a very short low bank-like feature abutting this reduced standing stone. | [ Reply to This ]
Re: Vola (Score: 1)
by howar on Saturday, 02 May 2009
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Graves were found at a place called Fairy Knowe which has been identified with the plain mound Quoyer visible from here in the next field east, for want of a better candidate. Given the pits dug into the Vola platform this would seem a much better prospect. |
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