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Submitted by howar on Thursday, 11 January 2024 Page Views: 144

Multi-periodSite Name: Howe Hill (Howe Farm) Alternative Name: hillock of Howe
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall Nearest Village: Balfour Village
Map Ref: HY51171599
Latitude: 59.028148N Longitude: 2.852344W
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

3 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 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.

2 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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**Howe Hill (Howe Farm)** submitted by howar : Aerial photo derived from ARCHI UK - LIDAR, high point excavation at left (Vote or comment on this photo)

The Pict's House/Fort" on Howe Hill, aka the 'hillock Of Howe' – RCAHMS record no. HY51NW 5 on Howe Farm – was an amorphous mound prior to first excavation sometime before 1880. What can be seen of the knoll is roughly 50 by 40 yards and reaches 11’ 6” at the higher end.

Excavation at the top revealed curving drystane walls, After excavation the structure was filled in, but there were still ruins visible in 1923. The Pict’s House structure is thought to be a broch, though a more recent opinion has it as more like an unenclosed settlement, A solstitial alignment to the Mor Stein to my mind indicates an earlier origin or purpose to the whole.

I could get to within a field of it all around and only saw a grassy mound. Being on a large circular walk I left it in peace

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HY5015 : Wave-cut platform near Winter Noust by Ian Balcombe — by Ian Balcombe
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HY5116 : The B9059 East of Howe by Ian Balcombe — by Ian Balcombe
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HY5116 : Looking towards Housebay by Anne Burgess — by Anne Burgess
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HY5115 : The Bay of Sandgarth by Ian Balcombe — by Ian Balcombe
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HY5016 : Aerogenerator on Shapinsay by Mike Pennington — by Mike Pennington
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