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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: North Howe Broch
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe

Map Ref: HY3705130722
Latitude: 59.158569N  Longitude: 3.102484W
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
 2 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
 5

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North Howe Broch
North Howe Broch submitted by PAB : The remains of the broch are located about 300m from the Mid Howe Cairn and Broch, and were visible from the roadway. Photo taken June 2016 (Vote or comment on this photo)
On the headland near the well-visited Mid Howe Cairn and Broch, there is a circular feature which looked interesting and worth a photo for later follow-up.

From details provided on Canmore about a Geophysical Survey in 2018, this can reasonably be recorded as the ruins of a broch, with associated features.

This photo was taken in June 2016, and the same feature can be seen on the Canmore site page. Full details of the site and the 2018 Geophysical Survey can be found on Canmore, and a summary of the Survey is given in the Comments below.
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North Howe Broch
North Howe Broch submitted by PAB : Location of the remains of North Howe Broch, in relation to the Mid Howe Cairn and Broch, Rousay. Photo taken June 2016 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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HY3730 : Midhowe Broch and outbuildings by Rob Burke
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HY3730 : Rocky Mid Howe shore, Rousay by David Hawgood
by David Hawgood
©2013(licence)
HY3730 : Outbuildings of Mid Howe Broch, Rousay by David Hawgood
by David Hawgood
©2013(licence)
HY3730 : Mid Howe Broch by Russel Wills
by Russel Wills
©2012(licence)
HY3730 : Rousay: Midhowe Broch from the northeast by Chris Downer
by Chris Downer
©2015(licence)

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Re: North Howe Broch by SimonBlackmore on Wednesday, 19 June 2024
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Re: North Howe Broch by PAB on Monday, 11 January 2021
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We visited in June 2016, and only followed up recently to see what the circular feature may have been - lockdown tidying up of photos!

As a result, I came across further information on Canmore, in particular a description of a 2018 study:

Geophysical Survey (16 April 2018 - 26 April 2018)

HY 37051 30722 (North Howe), HY 37274 30377 (South Howe), HY 37352 29774 (Knowe of Rowiegar), HY 37531 29661 (Knowe of Swandro), HY 37626 29296 (Westness Viking Houses), HY 4398 3224 (Rinyo) and HY 40065 27452 (Burrian)

"The RGK undertook a survey campaign on Rousay, 16 – 26 April 2018, as part of the Boyne to Brodgar Project. It aimed to provide a landscape perspective of two Neolithic core areas on the island – Westside and Rinyo. Moreover, the diachronic development in both areas will be researched, concentrating on the processes of formation and degradation of land use over time.

At Westside the survey area stretched from Westness Farm in the S to the rugged area N of North Howe, where the rocky surface and shrubbery prevented further activity (c56ha). The survey focused on the lower fields close to the coast and to the known Neolithic chambered cairns of Knowe of Swandro, Knowe of Rowiegar and Mid Howe. Some fields had to be omitted because the device could not drive across their steep slopes and rocky ground.

Several new anthropogenic anomalies and structures can be observed in the imagery. In the SE field of the surveyed area a possible new mound is most striking. A circular structure, 9.5m in diameter, of high magnetic susceptibility was evident about 250m NW of the mound.

In the N further settlement structures surrounding North Howe Broch have been revealed. Track-like linear structures follow downhill from the N towards the SW, and E of these, and NW of North Howe several possible settlement structures are evident. Three circular roundhouse structures are located 20m N of the broch, their diameter is between 8.5 and 11m. Immediately W of North Howe a concentration of stone might result from broch related debris, but could also reveal remains of further building activity in this location.

Further investigations will hopefully reveal details about the chronology and function of some of the anomaly clusters."
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