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<< Our Photo Pages >> Riggan of Kami - Broch or Nuraghe in Scotland in Orkney

Submitted by howar on Friday, 27 July 2018  Page Views: 1054

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Riggan of Kami
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: Kirkwall  Nearest Village: Deerness
Map Ref: HY59170743
Latitude: 58.952123N  Longitude: 2.711412W
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
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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
5

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Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : view across broch with exposed walls (Vote or comment on this photo)
Broch or Nuraghe in Orkney

RCAHMS record number HY50NE 20 (see Canmore ID 2934. An excavation, cut short by the death of the director in 1982 , revealed on the N side a regularly curving segment of ground-galleried broch-type wall 13'6" thick which he thought could be a structure of the hypothesised 'semibroch' type adduced along the west coast of the Scottish mainland and in the Western Isles. Others suggesrted it might be a 'forework' or 'blockhouse' fort. In 2002 Euan Mackie suggested from plans of 1984 and and 1987 observations that inserted into a ground-galleried broch had been "a proper wheelhouse of Shetland type (with built radial piers)" otherwise only found in Shetland at that time.

As well as the wall and traces of domestic structures on the promontory itself there are almost a hectare of dark midden deposits on the W side. Though the promontory isn't connected to the steep-sided Stack of Mustack/Moustag (HY50NE 28 HY59260743) it is likely it once was, with the suggestion that this was part of the Iron Age complex - two or three orthostats protrude from a low ~19mD mound at the far end.

The first time I went I came south from the Gloup via a group of minor earthworks only to be stopped by a field fence. Next time I walked the Sandside road and a track runs across the field to the promontory. Owing to its hazardous nature this is blocked by a fence. As I stepped over I saw my foot going below the level of the other, and having short legs and being alone I might get stuck for many hours. But a high-zoom camera worked wonders.
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Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : this appears to be a staircase, presumably intra-mural (Vote or comment on this photo)

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : what looked to be an interior structure revealad as wall with probable radial pier at left (Vote or comment on this photo)

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : mound showing what looked to be an interior structure (Vote or comment on this photo)

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : looking across exterior? broch wall to central mound (Vote or comment on this photo)

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : looking along exterior? broch wall

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : exterior? broch wall

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : exterior? broch wall and top of interior

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : looking over mound with exterior? broch wall left of centre

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : looking into hollow at top

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : the excavated walls

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : mound from west looking out to sea

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : Stack of Mustack relative to Riggan of Kami

Riggan of Kami
Riggan of Kami submitted by howar : satellite image with indication of radial piers

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