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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: St. Peter's Bay Mound
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Kirkwall  Nearest Village: Toab
Map Ref: HY537045  Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.925255N  Longitude: 2.805864W
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
 2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 2 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
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St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : main mound area from furthest visible from Ness of Campston road (Vote or comment on this photo)
Broch in Orkney

Prominent on the hill as viewed from the shore, a little further along than St.Peter's Kirk. 16m E-W by 18m, most of it is grass-covered but (at least now) higher up is bare and there are some stones on its top. Even with binoculars there is no definite shape to them. It is a settlement mound and there is apparently suggestion of a level platform to the south. Down at the uppermost shoreline there is at the land's edge levels like those I noted in the cliff's edge to the right of the Scapa Distillery outlet (Broch of Lingro). There is hereabouts an angle of drystane wall jutting out that may be something more than that. You cannot get to the site from the coast owing to a very taut barbwire fence along the coastline. A better bet is probably the farmtrack to Ness of Campston. RCAHMS NMRS record no. HY50SW 21 has now the results of geophysics to the south and west in 2001. Numerous anomalies indicate an extensive site, along with an arc of of ditch about 55m diameter and 6~8m wide with a break at the SE. As a result it is thought this could be a broch-type settlement.
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St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : seen from Sandi Sand across St Peter's Bay (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : seen from west (roughly) (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : with St Peter's Kirk Mound in bottom RH corner (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : exposed mound area (Vote or comment on this photo)

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : slab, fallen standing stone, wall structure below mound

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : wall structure below mound or just bifurcated drain/culvert

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : occupation/destruction ? Down below the mound at the uppermost shoreline there is at the land's edge levels like those I noted in the cliff's edge to the right of the Scapa Distillery outlet (Broch of Lingro).

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : settlement from below16m E-W by 18m, most of it is grass-covered but (at least now) higher up is bare and there are some stones on its top. Even with binoculars there is no definite shape to them. It is probably a settlement mound and there is apparently suggestion of a level platform to the south. You cannot get to the site from the coast owing to a very taut barbwire fence along the coastline. ...

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : stones showing clearly from left of shore 16m E-W by 18m, most of it is grass-covered but (at least now) higher up is bare and there are some stones on its top. Even with binoculars there is no definite shape to them. It is probably a settlement mound and there is apparently suggestion of a level platform to the south. You cannot get to the site from the coast owing to a very taut barbwire fence...

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : view from shore left 16m E-W by 18m, most of it is grass-covered but (at least now) higher up is bare and there are some stones on its top. Even with binoculars there is no definite shape to them. It is probably a settlement mound and there is apparently suggestion of a level platform to the south. You cannot get to the site from the coast owing to a very taut barbwire fence along the coastline....

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : settlement from main road Orkney HY537045

St. Peter's Bay Mound
St. Peter's Bay Mound submitted by howar : settlement and ?quarry Orkney HY537045

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Re: St. Peter's Bay Mound by howar on Monday, 27 June 2011
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The Statistical Accounts mention a small Cromwellian fort on the point of Ness as being an earth and stone circular embankment, with a piece of ordnance still there in 1842.
A collection of sites under the umbrella of St Peter's Bay, record HY50SW 21 to be exact; mound, ditch, ?settlement. It was as late as 1979 that RCAHMS found a five foot high turf-covered mound measuring 16m by 18m from the top of which slab stumps protruded. Level platform traces to the south were investigated in 2001 when a section of ditch (with a likely SE entrance or other break) about the mound estimated at 6-8m wide gave an estimate for the site, likely a broch, being some 55m across. Geophysics also found anomalies outside of this area. More detailed geophysics on the mound and platform in 2006 confirmed the ditch and suggested associated banks as well as further settlement, this especially beyond the putative entrance. The resistance survey found several concentric rings, with the innermost believed to be a broch tower and the rest ditch revetment, and radar indicated a 3m deep ditch 8m wide. In between the survey dates the farmer had managed to uncover passages and walls in which he found saddle querns and decorated stones
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