Featured: How and why the ancients enchanted Great Britain and Brittany

How and why the ancients enchanted Great Britain and Brittany

The Quest for the Shaman: Shape-shifters, Sorcerers and Spirit-healers of Ancient Europe

The Quest for the Shaman: Shape-shifters, Sorcerers and Spirit-healers of Ancient Europe

Who's Online

There are currently, 282 guests and 0 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> The Brough - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Sunday, 14 November 2004  Page Views: 4205

Multi-periodSite Name: The Brough Alternative Name: Covenanters Graves
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall
Map Ref: HY545101
Latitude: 58.975627N  Longitude: 2.793125W
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.
3 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.
1 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
3

Internal Links:
External Links:

The Brough
The Brough submitted by howar : A slab from ' covenanters graves ' just visible in foreground (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork in Orkney

RCAHMS NMRS no.s HY51SW 4 The Brough and HY51SW 3 'Covenanters Graves', at HY54501005 and HY54501005 respectively, are best thought of as a promontory fort and outbuildings (I am reminded of the 'sailors graves' at the Brough of Bigging, but those by contrast lie within the fort, the adjoining land not so suitable there). The deep dip where the promontory is is a truly treacherous place to tread nowadays. Surely if you are building stuff for people you don't put it opposite a water-holding cup of land. This seems a little strange to me - was it excavated by people themselves for some now obscure reason.

CANMORE lists many features but in practice all is covered by tussocks of maritime grass - when I went all that could be safely observed were one slab on the promontory and another on the landward side, of which the latter can just be made out on my photo. A 12.5m circle to the east of the 'graves' is formed by two low earth and stone banks and may represent a greatly eroded building. Further along the northern edge of the path over the narrow strip of land several structures in a line have been found ; two ?hut-circles 3m across, a rectangular ?building 8m long, several hummocks with erect slabs.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


The Brough of Birsay Settlement
The Brough of Birsay Settlement submitted by swatson : History Gallery Another angle on the Viking monastic settlement on the Brough of Birsay. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
HY5410 : Hangie Bay , Tankerness by Adam Ward
by Adam Ward
©2006(licence)
HY5410 : Skerry to the south of  Lee Taing by Des Colhoun
by Des Colhoun
©2008(licence)
HY5410 : Ditch digging, Tankerness by Richard Webb
by Richard Webb
©2018(licence)
HY5310 : Cott of Ness by Ian Balcombe
by Ian Balcombe
©2009(licence)
HY5310 : The Auskerry Protocol (#1) by Ian Balcombe
by Ian Balcombe
©2009(licence)

The above images may not be of the site on this page, they are loaded from Geograph.
Please Submit an Image of this site or go out and take one for us!


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive OS map

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 126m NNW 341° Castle of Hangie Bay* Stone Fort or Dun (HY54461022)
 1.6km SW 233° Taing of Beeman* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY53210914)
 2.4km WSW 250° Loch of Tankerness* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY522093)
 2.5km WSW 244° Grieves Cottage* Standing Stone (Menhir) (HY522090)
 3.3km WSW 250° The Howie of The Manse* Broch or Nuraghe (HY514090)
 3.7km W 273° Yinstay* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY50841031)
 3.7km WSW 244° Whitecleat* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (HY511085)
 3.8km S 180° Hurnip's Point* Chambered Cairn (HY54480634)
 3.8km SW 222° Loch of Messigate* Standing Stones (HY519073)
 3.8km SW 236° Mill Sand* Standing Stones (HY513080)
 3.9km SE 141° Koffer Howe* Artificial Mound (HY56920699)
 3.9km SE 146° Millfield* Artificial Mound (HY56700682)
 4.0km S 174° Eves Howe* Broch or Nuraghe (HY54900611)
 4.4km SW 219° Muckle Crofty* Stone Fort or Dun (HY517067)
 4.8km SSW 211° Breck Farm* Standing Stones (HY520060)
 4.8km SSE 147° Howan Blo* Cist (HY571060)
 4.9km SW 222° Hawell Burnt Mound* Round Barrow(s) (HY512065)
 4.9km SW 228° Nearhouse* Ancient Village or Settlement (HY508068)
 5.2km SW 219° Longhowe Cairn (HY512061)
 5.2km ESE 105° Brough of Deerness* Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle (HY59550873)
 5.2km SW 221° Stem Howe* Round Barrow(s) (HY510062)
 5.3km SW 219° Mine Howe* Chambered Cairn (HY5106406023)
 5.4km ESE 119° Riggan of Kami* Broch or Nuraghe (HY59170743)
 5.4km SW 221° Long Howe* Long Barrow (HY509060)
 5.6km SW 221° Round Howe* Broch or Nuraghe (HY50780591)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Castle of Hangie Bay

Folly Wood >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Lines on the Landscape, Circles from the Sky: Monuments of Neolithic Orkney

Lines on the Landscape, Circles from the Sky: Monuments of Neolithic Orkney

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"The Brough" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: The Brough by howar on Saturday, 08 May 2010
(User Info | Send a Message)
in "Pictures from the Orkney Islands" hillocks near the Hole of Tankerness cliff [? Hangie, depictured as as large arch like the Hole of Row in Biirsay in which case collapsed since 1881] pointed out as martyr's graves
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.