<< Our Photo Pages >> Kirkhouse - Round Cairn in Scotland in Orkney
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: KirkhouseCountry: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Round Cairn
Nearest Town: Kirkwall Nearest Village: St. Margaret's Hope
Map Ref: ND470909
Latitude: 58.802358N Longitude: 2.918969W
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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Below St. Peter's Church is a storm beach of large stones of all shapes. Even above the shore there are many, increasing in frequency as you progress to Kirk Ness.
You think of standing stones being quarried and shaped but here they are, like an open-cast mine for megaliths of all shapes and sizes. Perhaps this is why the Sorquoy Stone is so big, not importance, purely material to hand. Such an abundance marks this area as surely of importance. Near the beginning a relative few stones are upright, including some about a depression in a rise. This, RCAHMS NMRS record no. ND49SE 16, is a heavily quarried cairn 17x10m with an upright slab 0.9x0.6m orientated NE/SW within, but not a burial place they say. There are two slabs on the west margin of which one is fairly recent. . Shows signs of re-use, most likely as a kelp-kiln.
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