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Submitted by howar on Sunday, 22 August 2004 Page Views: 7077

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Long Howe Alternative Name: Langskaill Barrow
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Long Barrow
Nearest Town: Kirkwall Nearest Village: Toab
Map Ref: HY509060
Latitude: 58.938412N Longitude: 2.854821W
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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1	Awful
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3 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
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5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
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**Long Howe** submitted by howar : Long Howe with Round Howe's outer edge in the near foreground. Mine Howe is behind this. Orkney HY509060 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Long Barrow in Orkney.
RCAHMS NMRS record HY50NW 61 is probably a kerbed bowl barrow and the main body is 7.7x7.1m.

Most of the exposed stones are unseen from the road as they are at the back, so I was glad of a chance to finally see them on the Mine Howe open day. I don't know about kerbed but it certainly feels a little 'terraced' and the lines of stonework, if we may deign to call them that, seem to bear this out. The stones become more obvious as you near the Mine Howe end.
At HY51010599 they are especially big and present a structured appearance. Two stones are one above another at an obtuse angle, though not fully overlapping, and visible of the top one on the left is 1.8x0.9x0.2m and of the lower one 1.5x0.2x0.2m. There is a space of about half a metre beneath them but no void to be seen, only comparatively smaller stones. To the right of this 'overhang' are yet more stones, though I could not tell whether these were in connection with or seperate or perhaps more of that 'terracing'.
The Bronze Age cist on top of the mound is presently being excavated Though the general area has possibly suffered damage from livestock it is a little beauty, 50x20 by 50cm deep, atop the barrow at the end nearest Round Howe. I imagine this to be the known cist mentioned in the NMRS.
There is a small area excavated around it and a bigger area downslope, mostly to the left of the cist, in which are exposed several (what for the moment I'd call) flags contiguous in a circular manner. The young lady said they found flint chippings on the cover slab and on the inside, but nowhere else in the vicinity. No human remains have been found as yet, though as the bottom is a bit smashed up they believe these could be in a pit further down still.
What marks the cist out as unusual is that there is no back slab. I was minded on the Nev Hill round cairn. However on re-reading Davidson and Henshall I find that there it was the back slab to a chamber which was absent, being explained by an arc of drystone walling thereabouts apparently continuing as part of a semicircular rear wall.

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