Megalithic Portal: Latest from Orkney, Scotland

Warebeth

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:50:11 GMT

]]>. Chambered Tomb in Orkney. Howar writes: I always had my suspicions about a knoll in the field right of the road coming down to the Warebeth cemetery and broch so it is nice to be proved right. In this natural mound archaeologist potter Andrew Appleby noticed slabs highlighted by ploughing that Colin Richards later confirmed as being those of a tomb, in a situation resembling that of Crantit.

Birsay

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:24:00 GMT

]]>The Earl's place and some of the longhouses outlined by snow.. The remains of a Viking monastic settlement on the Brough of Birsay, a small tidal island off the north western tip of Mainland Orkney.

Redland South

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:24:44 GMT

. Chambered Cairn in Orkney Heavily robbed remains of a chambered cairn.

Quoys Chambered Cairn

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:23:54 GMT

. Chambered Cairn in Orkney Remains of a chambered cairn located east of Quoys.

Bretta Ness

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:26:16 GMT

]]>. Ancient Village or Settlement in Orkney RCAHMS record no. HY33SE 12, this gently mounded promontory is by tradition the site of a kirk - the 1880 Name Book says the stones from it were removed to the loch margins. It is almost completely artificial, but to my mind the rise in water levels makes it unlikely to have been an isolated crannog as the neck would have been even broader in prehistory, more like a broch with causeway I'd hazard.

Oyce of Isbister

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 22:23:27 GMT

]]>. Round Barrow(s) in Orkney Several cists were found in 1858 by James Muir, the tenant of Isbister, close to his house. The largest was 2'3" wide, with the SW side 5'8" long and that on the NE 4'8" long. To help prevent the ingress of water the depth was greater on the longer side (2'10" as against 2'7" max) with a half-an-inch of gravel on the level bottom. A flexed skeleton lay on its RH side at the NW end and another at the opposite end.

Oram's Fancy Cists

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:07:45 GMT

. Cist in Orkney

Burrian Broch

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:32:06 GMT

]]>. Broch or Nuraghe in Orkney

Green (Eday)

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:15:53 GMT

]]>Structure with finger fluting marks found at BEVARS dig on Eday. Updates from the 2012 dig diary are now available. The season runs until the end of August and visitors are welcome. Fieldwalking at this site produced quantities of worked stone and in 2004 a test pit revealed in situ masonry together with a possible hearth, suggesting the presence of a Neolithic building. In 2006 a geophysical survey seemed to confirm this. Excavations are ongoing each summer at this site, a farm on the south coast of the Isle of Eday.

Braes of Ha�Breck, Wyre.

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:10:34 GMT

. Ancient Settlement in Orkney