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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Longhowe Alternative Name: Long Howe
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Cairn

Map Ref: HY512061
Latitude: 58.939345N  Longitude: 2.849632W
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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.
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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
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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A scattering of flints unearthed near Minehowe could mark the site of the earliest “settlement” found in Orkney to date. The flints were found during the excavation of the Bronze Age barrow on top of Longhowe – the raised strip of land between Minehowe and the circular feature known as Roundhowe, to the south-west.

Orkney Archaeological Trust project manager Nick Card explained: “Within the make-up of the barrow we found lots of bits of flint – in fact more flint from this one area than we got from the rest of the site. We originally thought these were Bronze Age but a couple were definitely diagnostic of the Mesolithic.”

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HY5105 : Inside Mine Howe by John Tustin
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Re: Search for Mesolithic evidence resumes on Longhowe by cosmic on Wednesday, 07 November 2007
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From Stone Pages Archaeo News Issue 242

Hazelnut shell pushes back date of Orcadian site

A charred hazelnut shell recovered during the excavations at Longhowe
in Tankerness (Orkney, Scotland), earlier this year, has been dated
to 6820-6660 BCE. Although Orkney has plenty of indications of early
(pre-farming or Mesolithic) settlement in the form of stone tools,
this is the first date to relate to this activity. It pushes back the
dated settlement of Orkney by 3,000 years.
The hazelnut shell was found in a pocket of soil that had
survived underneath the Bronze Age burial mound at Longhowe and
provides a context for numerous stone arrowheads and other tools,
which were found both in the soil below, and in, the matrix of the
mound. It is likely that the remains of a small Mesolithic hunting
camp were destroyed by the mound builders.
Caroline Wickham Jones explained: "This date relates to the
earliest known period of settlement of Scotland when bands of nomadic
hunters lived here. Remains from this time are scarce and few sites
have been recognised by archaeologists, especially in the north.
Longhowe is therefore important both for the light it can shed on
this elusive period of Orkney's past as well as for our understanding
of the early settlement of Scotland as a whole."

Source: Orkneyjar (3 November 2007)
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Search for Mesolithic evidence resumes on Longhowe by Andy B on Tuesday, 14 August 2007
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