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Photo Pages: The Howie of The Manse - Broch in Scotland in Orkney
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Submitted by wideford on Sunday, 28 March 2004 Page Views: 1873
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 Site Name: The Howie of The Manse Alternate Name: Loch of Tankerness
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch
Nearest Town: Kirkwall
Map Ref: HY514090 Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.965408N Longitude: 2.846795W
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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   The Howie of the Manse submitted by wideford
Broch in Orkney
This broch sits on a small headland jutting out into the lower end of the Loch of Tankerness.Two ways to reach the site, neither straightforward and both requiring boots.
One is to follow the mill stream and step on and over the wall where the stream comes to the loch shore, then follow the shoreline to your right. This way is very marshy and somewhat treacherous. An interesting feature of the wall is that ( on the one side of the stream at least ) it is formed of two courses of thin slabs set on end - this I would associate with the builders of the 19thC Mill as it looks rather out of place in Orkney to me .Over the stream is a most curious construction . Following the shoreline there are places where stones appear placed by the hand of man.
Alternatively go up the hill from the Tankerness Mill and just round the road from Northwood House the sound of doves comes from Glebe . Go to the field that is directly behind this then downfield to the shore. It tends to be rather suckily muddy in many places. I would suggest going down the left-hand as the wall does a few strange things - there are two standing stones built into walls, one inside aligned with a wall and another at right angles to a wall ending it but lacking holes or other indications of having been a gatepost. Down at the bottom of this field there are a few 'sets' of large stones that would seem to represent former structures here ( in my opinion at least ) - I may be wrong but would note that at the Hall of Tankerness junction smack in the middle of a field stands a solitary standing stone with packing that does not appear on CANMORE either. To get to the headland requires going through a barbed wire fence, which fortunately has plenty of give in it or I'd never have managed it.
It is one of the least prepossessing brochs I have seen, though at the seaward end it stands rather higher than the likes of Oxtro. At first sight I thought that there was nothing. Going towards it you can certainly feel plenty of apparently isolated stones hidden beneath the grass but no sense of stucture that I could tell. Coming to the highpoint and taking the line around you certainly get a strong feel for where the inner and outer walls were, going by the turf. Then I reached the top and there was a roughly rectangular depression. Looking on the inner side I made out several slabs in a non-radial line . So I did some rooting about and tearing off of the overhanging grass. Definitely a straight wall, remaining about six foot long and a foot or so high. The other side is less well defined, a few loose stones as far as I could tell and not so obviously slabs. If you go poking about then gloves are a necessity - the place is covered in almost invisibly short nettles. CANMORE mention several shallow sun- and rectangular banks S and W, and defensive remains 27m and 42m from the centre.
 The Howie of The Manse submitted by wideford
The 1931 cist?
 The Howie of The Manse submitted by wideford
wall of ?entrance passage
Going into Finstown is the road to Evie. Go out of town and you can't miss the pillbox. This sits on The Hillock (RCAHMS NMRS Record no.HY31SE 4). I spent two seasons based just outwith, whilst working on The Howe outside Stromness, and I never realised I had a broch practically on my doorstep. At the near end is a space going down to the shore. To the left is a squ
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Re: The Howie of The Manse (Score: 1)
by wideford on Tuesday, 15 August 2006
(User Info | Send a Message) | | The 1798 and 1842 Statistical Accounts describe this as semi-circular and 140 yards across, having walls 12' high and 9' thick. If there were internal compartments these were filled with rubbish at that time. Unfortunately the site was heavily 'quarried' for stone in order to make the glebe wall i.e. that around the minister's land. They believed the site might have once been used in part for burials. There were further walls on the outside of the "great wall". In the various compartments were found "peat ashes" along with animal bones (including deer horn), shells and small bone rings. | [ Reply to This ]
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Re: The Howie of The Manse (Score: 1)
by wideford on Saturday, 20 January 2007
(User Info | Send a Message) | | In 1931 a cist and prehistoric fragments were excavated by Hugh Marwick on the Little Howie of The Glebe [photograph location looks correct for the structure I snapped]. Unfortunately "The Orkney Herald" did not keep up with the excavations. | [ Reply to This ]
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