<< Our Photo Pages >> Taing of Beeman - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney
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Multi-periodSite Name: Taing of BeemanCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.585 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall
Map Ref: HY53210914
Latitude: 58.966867N Longitude: 2.815356W
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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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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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. |
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 |
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RCAHMS NMRS record no. HY50NW 1 is a scattered prehistoric settlement [possibly comparable to The Howie of The Manse, also in Tankerness] between the sea and a freshwater pool. The account on CANMORE is missing the info from Raymond Lamb's 1979 visit (Orkney Sites and Monuments Record 7): this is probably because of duplication, but does mean the interpretation is biased in favour of its being a broch (a decision backed by a 1946 aerial photo, it must be said).
In place of a dug out mound with a SSW circular annexe Raymond has a pair of conjoined houses [hut-circles or a figure-of-eight house ?] covering 11m. Peripheral slabs suggestive of another house are seen around an 8m mound about 50m to the NE (a dubious mound sits 20m to the north). Midway, a few vertical slabs break the turf, with walling eroding from the coast at a corresponding position.
Though I am sceptical of there being a broch in this area a more generic roundhouse may be present. Alternatively, the form of the structures may prove a better match for Late Iron Age II, in which case we could be dealing with a Christian settlement attached to a round church misread as a broch (there was an Saint Beeman).
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