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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lamb Holm - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Thursday, 03 June 2004  Page Views: 8734

Multi-periodSite Name: Lamb Holm
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall  Nearest Village: St Mary's
Map Ref: HY484005  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.888731N  Longitude: 2.89697W
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.
2 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
3

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Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : shoreline 'housewall' 4m wide Orkney HY484005 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Orkney


CANMORE gives this prehistoric settlement as 450m WSW of the Italian Chapel. More usefully it is by the shore the other side of the main road and can be sighted along the side road to the chapel. There must be an easier way in than over the blocks at the end of Churchill Barrier Number One, which was the way I chose for reasons of time - having clambered atop the blocks I saw some stones had been placed on the coastal side of one for such a purpose. I must admit my hopes were low, maybe a few slight bumps if I was lucky. Proceeding along the coastline there was a flattened area 'paved' by flat stones and a few sticking up slightly. At the time because I came upon them so quickly I put them down to being either purely geological or of recent agricultural origin but after what came after I am more open to a dfferent interpretatation. The very next thing was two platforms each 4-5m across, with stones at the sides and back giving them a wedge shape several inches high at the rear. Very nice. Seeing more stones going across the edge of the low cliff I went down onto the beach for a quick shufty. Oh, glory be, what a sight, the cliff hereabouts was a housewall composed of a multitude of rounded stones about the size of a housebrick at most, course after course. All told the exposed section could be made out for 14m, tapering off into indistinction either side. It may be that it does continue erratically over an even longer portion of the cliff, though the cliff-face shortly goes down to sea-level at the left. The main central portion that first took my fancy is the 4m to the right of the only orthostat in the section. Neolithic or at the least Bronze Age. Coming back up I went towards a small modern structure roadside to see if there was another way out there. There wasn't but I did pass a couple of depressions with a few smaa stones in that might be something. And then a couple of linear humps, short but suggestive - though what of I'm no sure.
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Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : Orkney HY484005 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : 14m clearly visible as structure Orkney HY484005 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : post-storms where intact wall stood (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : post-storms cliff walling remains (Vote or comment on this photo)

Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : post-storms cliff section

Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : looking across longer sides of structure in direction of Churchill Barrier No.1 Orkney HY484005

Lamb Holm
Lamb Holm submitted by howar : structure A parallel to shore, 4.3m wide Orkney HY484005 (2 comments)

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Re: Lamb Holm by howar on Monday, 31 January 2005
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Since The Storms my beautiful wall is no more - I think apart from my poor photos it is lost to archaeology.
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