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<< Our Photo Pages >> Knowe of Hunclett - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by SolarMegalith on Friday, 20 January 2012  Page Views: 3195

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Knowe of Hunclett
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe

Map Ref: HY41442722
Latitude: 59.127754N  Longitude: 3.024812W
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.
 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
0No data.
 no data 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
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Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : Broch settlement seen from Blackhammer Tomb on the hillside above, with wall arc visible in west half (RH side of image) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Broch in Orkney

Remains of a broch preservd as a 3 m high mound with visible parts of the outer wall-face. Around the mound there are traces of outbuildings.

MacKie, E. 2002. Roundhouses, Brochs and Wheelhouses of Atlantic Scotland c. 700 BC – AD 500. Part I: The Orkney and Shetland Isles. Oxford: Archaeopress. (p. 245)
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Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : inner and outer wallface visible at high zoom from road (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : looking diagonally across to hollow, the edge of the broch I think (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : E/W profile from road (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : W/E profile from ferry with a few more pixels (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : west end of platform at the coast - behind the wooden fieldgate is an arcing ditch and/or track (Vote or comment on this photo)

Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : west half in field along from broch tower field

Knowe of Hunclett
Knowe of Hunclett submitted by howar : W/E profile from Rousay ferry

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 390m N 356° Blackhammer* Chambered Tomb (HY41422761)
 1.1km WNW 284° Langstane (Orkney)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY404275)
 1.2km ENE 70° Taversoe Tuick* Chambered Cairn (HY42572761)
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 2.1km NNE 29° Tammaskirk* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY42502907)
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 4.2km SW 234° Redland South* Chambered Cairn (HY38002484)
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 4.6km SSW 196° Tingwall Broch* Broch or Nuraghe (HY401228)
 4.8km WNW 301° Knowe of Rowiegar* Chambered Cairn (HY37332978)
 4.8km N 11° Kierfea Hill (Rousay) Cairn (HY42423196)
 5.1km W 264° Knowe of Stenso* Broch or Nuraghe (HY3639426747)
 5.3km NNE 22° Bigland Long (Rousay) Cairn (HY43533214)
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Re: Knowe of Hunclett by howar on Saturday, 03 November 2012
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RCAHMS record no. HY42NW 15 can be reached by an advertised trail.
On the coast below Blackhammer tomb you can see a ten-foot high turf-covered broch mound, apparently excavated (slight depression on summit), with extensive outbuildings to the south showing as many areas of exposed stonework. Thirty metres from the tower there is a shingle beach rather than the usual rocky Rousay shore, with further archaeology in the shore banks themselves . A rough, unploughable section of the next field west continues the five-foot high broad platform on which the broch sits. An exposed inner broch wall-section a yard long and a foot high has been extrapolated to give a diameter of 30-33' (with walls at least 10-12' thick) and its platform extends about two-hundred feet from the fieldwall. The whole broch is bounded at the west by a curving ditch 3-4m wide by 2.2m deep, on whose inner lip a possible fortification is indicated by a stone wall. And an outer wall can be read from more stonework west of the ditch itself.
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