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<< Our Photo Pages >> Lamb Holm - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by howar on Thursday, 03 June 2004 Page Views: 5524
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Scotland
Site 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:| 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 |
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Ambience:| 5 | Superb | | 4 | Good | | 3 | Ordinary | | 2 | Not Good | | 1 | Awful | | 0 | No data. |
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Access:| 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. |
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Accuracy:| 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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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 submitted by howar
post-storms where intact wall stood
 Lamb Holm submitted by howar
post-storms cliff walling remains
 Lamb Holm submitted by howar
post-storms cliff section
 Lamb Holm submitted by howar
looking across longer sides of structure in direction of Churchill Barrier No.1
Orkney HY484005
 Lamb Holm submitted by howar
structure A parallel to shore, 4.3m wide
Orkney HY484005
 Lamb Holm submitted by howar
Orkney HY484005
 Lamb Holm submitted by howar
14m clearly visible as structure
Orkney HY484005
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Re: Lamb Holm (Score: 1)
by howar on Monday, 31 January 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Since The Storms my beautiful wall is no more - I think apart from my poor photos it is lost to archaeology. | [ Reply to This ]
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 Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
 Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
 Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma. |
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