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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Howe Chambered TombCountry: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Stromness
Map Ref: HY276109
Latitude: 58.979098N Longitude: 3.261158W
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 |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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drolaf visited on 15th Jun 2022 - their rating: Cond: -1 Amb: 4 although the site is demolished, the ambience in terms of views is very good, NE over Unstan to Brodgar and the hills beyond at Staneyhill quarry and chambered tomb, and SW to the Hoy hills.
This means that the Bookan-Brodgar-Maes complex has visual links east to Harper Howe and west to the large passage grave at Howe, very near Unstan stalled tomb a kilometre NE, and the Deepdale standing stones a kilometre NW.
This site was fully excavated 1978 to 1982 deliberately in its entirety to destruction, revealing use from the Neolithic up to late Roman period and later. Before demolition it was still a conspicuous mound, 40m in diameter and 4.5m high. The site consisted of an Iron Age ring-fort overlain by a broch and a later Pictish settlement on the S side of the broch. A later Viking black glass linen-smoother was found. If excavation had stopped at preservation of the broch, the Neolithic site would never have been found, and this suggests that at least some other Neolithic sites lie beneath later buildings. Euan Mackie ascribed great importance to it in his 2002 report. David Lynn pointed out in 2004 that a decision to not level the Neolithic structures meant that later buildings all suffered from problems of subsidence. Possibly a respect for the past affected the better judgement of the later builders.
Information from-
https://canmore.org.uk/site/1731/the-howe
http://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/around-the-ness-howe/
Ballin-Smith, B. (ed) (1994) Howe: Four millennia of Orkney prehistory. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
https://orkneyjar.com/archaeology/dhl/papers/howe/index.html
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