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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kirk Ness Dyke - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Wednesday, 25 August 2004  Page Views: 2904
Scotland Site Name: Kirk Ness Dyke
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall  Nearest Village: St. Margaret's Hope
Map Ref: ND474912
Latitude: 58.805101N  Longitude: 2.912118W
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
 4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 3 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.
 2 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
 no data

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Kirk Ness Dyke submitted by howar
Kirk Ness Dyke Misc. Earthwork in Orkney

Just beyond the coastal Kirk Ness mound I found a deep straight channel coming to the coast, where it is 'sealed' by drystane walling at ND47439119.

To me it screamed vallum. Though I think of it as V-shaped because I had to throw the tape measure out to get the full depth the sides were too steep for me to risk going down alone. As it is now it is 4m across by 2.5m high and there are stones along the top. If the Kirk Ness Dyke is one boundary of whatever the mound is then a brown standing stone I'd passed already was likely marking the other. Having another site incorrectly placed by me I looked for it by climbing over a drystane wall field boundary using more than adequate set of stiling stones. Where the dyke turns a bed of yellow flag, not in bloom, would seem to mark the vanished loch's edge. So did the dyke (described in NMRS as drystone dyke boundary and cru) seperate the mound from the loch, keep the mound within, both or neither?

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