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Multi-periodSite Name: Scockness Alternative Name: Scock Ness (Rousay)Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Village: Sourin
Map Ref: HY45263214
Latitude: 59.172440N Longitude: 2.959322W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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. |
| 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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One day I manaaged to walk from the pier on Rousay as far as Scockness. After navigating a field gate I followed the irregular shoreline to reach one of those enigmatic traditional 'Picts underground houses'.
The site sits on a spit of land between Mae Sand and a tidal pond. On the other side of the hill, by the N end of the Loch of Scockness, and only separated from the sea by South Sand storm beach, is the Taft o' Faraclett Broch excavated in 1857. And up on the hill at Scockness Farm in 1994 an excavator hole showed that the chapel and burial ground had been built on a settlement mound also probably Iron Age.
Only the south side of this grass-covered mound of gravel and small stones survives due to erosion at the N and W part. It is 1.3m high and 12.5m E/W by 8m, too small for a broch so possibly either a settlement or what's left of a cairn. Not a burnt mound they believe, owing to the absence of burnt material. From my visit it looks like as if it has been excavated at least once, with a slight hollow on the top and the pond-side rather too regular for simple erosion to my mind.
This site is recorded as Canmore ID 2698 which dates this as a possible Iron Age site comprising a Broch and Mound.
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