<< Our Photo Pages >> Grimsquoy - Round Barrow(s) in Scotland in Orkney
Submitted by howar on Thursday, 03 June 2004 Page Views: 3739
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: GrimsquoyCountry: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Round Barrow(s)
Nearest Town: Kirkwall
Map Ref: HY473085 Landranger Map Number: 6
Latitude: 58.960432N Longitude: 2.917957W
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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Round Barrow in Orkney
Yes, those punctuation marks are about the name on the NMRS ! I've debated long about adding these, but yesterday they stood out. They lie the other side of the stream from the often muddy footpath between Inganess Bay and the road to Deerness. Coming from the road I noticed a few stones near the bottom of the mound at that end. Passing by and looking back the appearance was of a low hill of three humps. It is probably on airport land but it is only just the other side of the beck. Originally it was seen as over half-a-dozen mounds, of which a couple were modern and some had been used by farmers for a sheep fold etc. Now the archaeologists seem to be concluding that it is one mound heavily dug into and they are no longer confident of any antiquity.
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