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<< Our Photo Pages >> Burn of Langskaill - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Monday, 30 August 2004  Page Views: 4513

Multi-periodSite Name: Burn of Langskaill
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall  Nearest Village: Toab
Map Ref: HY507059
Latitude: 58.937491N  Longitude: 2.858273W
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
3 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.
3 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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Burn of Langskaill
Burn of Langskaill submitted by howar : Dyke wall (Vote or comment on this photo)
Misc. Earthwork in Orkney

The lower of the two parallel lines of the burn as it passes NE of the community centre.

Unlike the other piece stone walls line the sides to a height of 1.4m at a distance apart of 4m. But where it passes under the road the bottom is lower, giving a total height of 2.5m. So the main dimensions are the same as those of the Kirk Ness Dyke and it would appear to bear the same relationship to the Round Howe "pseudo-broch" as that does to the coastal Kirk Ness mound. Which would appear to make it a drystone dyke boundary and cru also.
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Burn of Langskaill
Burn of Langskaill submitted by howar : Length of ditch which was originally at least 1m deeper, burn parallel to this showns no trace of any walls (Vote or comment on this photo)

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