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<< Text Pages >> Berst Ness - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by Andy B on Monday, 07 August 2006  Page Views: 6020

Multi-periodSite Name: Berst Ness Alternative Name: Berstness
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Island of Westray  Nearest Village: Midbea
Map Ref: HY441418
Latitude: 59.259024N  Longitude: 2.982099W
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
no data 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
3
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Ancient Settlement on the Isle of Westray, Orkney. At the south-western end of the island, on top of the headland at Berst Ness is an ancient settlement and what appears to be a Neolithic chambered tomb. The site was excavated in 2001, 2004 and again this summer.

According to Radio Orkney (via Wideford), Carbon 14 dates for burials have pushed back their age from what were previously thought to be Viking to Iron Age, 200BC-400AD. Many of them (mostly children) consisted of bagged bodies dropped vertically into spaces created by removing material from the structures' walls.

More on the 2001 digs at: http://www.orkneydigs.org.uk/westray/.

Note: "90 per cent of the known Iron Age remains found in Scotland to date", unearthed at Berst Ness, see comment
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HY4441 : Knowe o Skea, near Langskaill by Isla17
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HY4441 : Bakie Skerry, off Knowe of Skea by Isla17
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HY4341 : West side of Bakie Skerry, Berst Ness, Westray by George Brown
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HY4441 : Westray Firth by Isla17
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Iron Age burial ritual at the Knowe o' Skea by Andy B on Monday, 07 August 2006
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After four weeks of excavation at the Knowe o' Skea in Westray, archaeologists Graeme Wilson and Hazel Moore can boast a remarkable statistic.

The burials they have unearthed at the Berstness site make of an incredible 90 per cent of the known Iron Age remains found in Scotland to date.

More:
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/knoweskea2006.htm
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