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<< Our Photo Pages >> Ingshowe - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by howar on Sunday, 28 March 2004 Page Views: 2615
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Scotland
Site Name: Ingshowe Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Stromness
Map Ref: HY390128 Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.997937N Longitude: 3.06342W
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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Broch in Orkney
On the very tip of the little headland down from Rennibister souterrain this site is a lot better than it looks from the road. You have to go over a barred metal gate, inside which is the usual muddy rectangle where livestock have gathered. The grass-coverd mount presents a slightly horned appearance.
From the rocks by the burn to the furthest on the left rock the mound totals 52m and from this line to the seaward side maxes out at 16m as the mound rises. At its highest points I made it to be 2-2.5m structure remaining.
Next obstacle is two barb-wire fences under a metre apart running across the top - my little legs just made it. Most of the lower mound is before this, and as I found out the better stones are scattered across here. Coming up to the top there is an area of scattered stones, about two metres wide and encompassing 13m across, which appears to go around what remains of the central tower (the turfed horny section).
You can make out inner and outer walls. I found a spot on the left where I could get down to the shore - I must warn you that I found the seaweed around the cliff deep and slippy-slidey. From here you can follow from the left about 36m of remaining structure. Most of this wall is exposed, but alas the majority of the stonework is (now at least) small friable stuff. But the base is exceptionally well delineated a thin black and brown section ramrod staight!
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Ingshowe Broch tower remains in cliff section gives a pure profile to show its placement clearly
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E side of broch tower in cliff section
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close up on inner wall of broch tower in cliff section
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Broch tower remains and W side of broch in cliff section
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