<< Our Photo Pages >> Howe Harper - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Orkney

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Howe Harper
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Chambered Cairn
Nearest Town: Finstown
Map Ref: HY346143  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 59.010754N  Longitude: 3.140429W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 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.
 2 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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drolaf visited on 14th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3 Cairn with bank and ditch. From Harper howe you can see right across the valley west to Maes Howe, Unstan, Stennes, Brodgar, Bookan, south west to the Hoy hills, and east to Cuween and Wideford. That all these major sites are intervisible at Harper suggests some importance of this cairn.

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : Chambered cairn ( almost certainly ) , HY346143 Orkney (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Orkney

on hillside past Binscarth on the path that then skirts the Loch of Wasdale. Easy to see but next to impossible to access (see photo).
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Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : uphill half of mound and ditch looking northwards (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by drolaf : Harker howe, view over valley to sw-Maes, Brodgar, Stennes (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by drolaf : Harker Howe view to Hoy hills (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : mound and ditch from uphill (Vote or comment on this photo)

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : mound in approach showing excavated southern side with exposure (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Howe Harper submitted by howar : exposure in southern/excavated side of mound

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : view looking southerly across mound and ditch, showing hillslope

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : exposure in northern side of mound, with dark patch left of centre

Howe Harper
Howe Harper submitted by howar : chambered mound from Berstane Farm

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Re: Howe Harper by drolaf on Thursday, 30 June 2022
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From Harper howe you can see right across the valley west to Maes Howe, Unstan, Stennes, Brodgar, Bookan, south west to the Hoy hills, and east to Cuween and Wideford. That all these major sites are intervisible at Harper suggests some importance of this cairn.
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Re: Howe Harper by drolaf on Saturday, 25 June 2022
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If you park at the layby on the Finstown road, you can walk through Binscarth woods, and up round above Binscarth house. follow the track round the hill past the other cairns and lower down the hill is Harper howe. If you climb the hill you get even better views. A very pleasant walk.
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Re: Howe Harper by howar on Tuesday, 03 May 2011
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In 1996 "Countrywoman" wrote of a rumour that in a museum somewhere there is a gold ornament from either Howe-Harper or a hollowed mound nearby
"The Orcadian" April 4th 1996
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Re: Howe Harper by Anonymous on Tuesday, 19 August 2008
Vehicles aren't allowed on the Binscarth farm road. After the track to Wasdale, but before you reach Binscarth House, a track goes above the house and along the hill [no, I couldn't find a way through the gorse, so don't try]. After a short while you come to ruins on your left, what look like greenhouses in an old quarry, and from there climb up and the pass back above the gorse. First you come to a mound with what look like stone slabs face down into it. Then you come to a small one that looms over a great scallop out of the hillside at the top of which a rocky ?outcrop is exposed. And Howe-Harper comes next in the top right corner of its own field practically. The ditch is quite obvious, though it survives best on the uphiill sides (north esp.) and topside. I'm not certain of the mound standing on a platform myself, looking from the north across at the partially surrounding ditch the word that comes to mind is berm. There are two exposed areas, a good one on the south side with small flat stones set into earth, an a smaller section on the north side only earth but with an area of dark dusty material. Thinking of tombs overlooking settlements this cairn overlooks a circular 'thing' in the valley below, a pow when there's been heavy rain or a cropmark otherwise.
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