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<< Our Photo Pages >> Redland South - Chambered Cairn in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by SolarMegalith on Tuesday, 18 December 2012  Page Views: 3122

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Redland South
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.2 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Orkney Type: Chambered Cairn

Map Ref: HY38002484
Latitude: 59.105897N  Longitude: 3.084223W
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:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data 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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : The Redland/Keek standing stone (RCAMS 273 at HY37992486) was, and still is, the most visible piece of Redland South's stonework (Vote or comment on this photo)
Chambered Cairn in Orkney

Heavily robbed remains of a chambered cairn.

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Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : View from inside looking to dividing fence (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Redland South submitted by howar : Area around Redland Standing Stone stump (Vote or comment on this photo)

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : View across 'upper' section from dividing fence (Vote or comment on this photo)

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : View of 'upper' section looking across to road (Vote or comment on this photo)

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : 'Upper' section showing stones near dividing fence (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Redland South submitted by howar : 'Upper' section seen from downhill side of dividing fence

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : Part view of cairn looking uphill

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : 'Upper' section seen from hillock opposite.

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : Cairn seen from top of hillock opposite looking uphill.

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : Roadside view parallel to dividing fence of 'upper' section.

Redland South
Redland South submitted by howar : View from road looking down to dividing fence

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Re: Redland South by howar on Thursday, 09 April 2015
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In Evie village opposite the 'new' school is the Aikerness road with a sign for the Broch of Gurness (originally the Knowe of Aikerness). Going down the road where the farm on your right ends Redland South is in the second and third fields down - when I went three-and-a-half years ago, taking photos from the roadside bank, I didn't realise that the bulk of the cairn lies in the lower field because I went purely by the Pastmap marker. Certainly the 'upper' section is the most visibly man-made because of the large excavation pit around what had been known as the Redland standing stone, and looking across to Vishall Hill two long shapes look much more like burial mounds (they are above where Keek once stood). This is because the cairn sits on a the flat top of a natural mound rather like later cists were placed in false crests and rises. Indeed it feels as if the 'upper' section is a seperate entity as with the Head of Work. The lower field's remnant (entered by another gate) is rather unimpressive, especially as with a warming climate the protruding stones detailed in the record are hidden by grass. I came across then haphazardly, and it struck me that rather than ragged stumps these are original tops - I don't see why the standing stone alone would have survived levelling. On the other hand when I thought about a pair of stones 6' high the picture that came to my mind was of places like Weyland Smithy.
Redland South cairn, NMRS record no. HY32SE 17, was at least 27m long by 12m wide. Aligned ESE/WSW it sat on the edge of a shallow NW/SE plateau ~83m x ~15m, a natural dip on the NW side marked by an old track. A long stalled chamber is marked by eight protruding stumps. The compartments were most likely some 1.65m, though there was a longer compartment or two shorter ones between slabs 6 and 7 and the end compartment was also somewhat longer. The Redland Standing Stone and its partner formed a stall 4.1m from one end of the chamber. It is thought possible that the cairn continued beyond the NE cairn material. Also there is a 1.3m long 0.4m high orthostat SE of the chamber not following its axis.
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Re: Redland South by howar on Saturday, 28 March 2015
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RCAMS 273 the Redland standing stone was, and stil is, the most visible piece of Redland South's stonework. Until the 1880s, when a farmer smashed it to stop livestock using it as a rubbing stone, it stood about 2m high. The irregularly topped stump is described in the late 1920s as 12 or 16" high by 3' broad by 6" thick, and aligned ENE/WSW like Staneyhill. At that time the 4'8" upper fragment, tapering to a 2'7" squared off top, lay where it fell. In 1929 the ground around the stone was described as irregular with some small earthfast stones with the smaller stump of another standing stone mere feet away. So the excavation we see here is 1930 or later. More to follow on the cairn proper when I've sifted through photos from three visits. Cairn is in two fields on your right as you go from the Evie road to the Broch of Gurness
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