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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Howe of Hoxa
Country: Scotland County: Orkney Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Nearest Town: St.Margaret's Hope
Map Ref: ND425940 Landranger Map Number: 7
Latitude: 58.829616N Longitude: 2.997635W
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

4 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

4 Access:

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.

3 Accuracy:

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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**Howe of Hoxa** submitted by howar : broch Orkney ND425940 (Vote or comment on this photo)

Broch in Orkney

To paraphrase it's one of the ruins that Petrie buggered about a bit. It stands quite well behind Hoxa but this wall is his reconstruction. Would have been nice to go inside the wall but the interior was completely taken over by very tall nettles, so went further along the road got into a field and proceeded up the long ramp of a mound that approaches the broch from behind. From the 'hilltop' there you look directly into the structure and the radial slabs etc.

RCAHMS NMRS number ND49SW 1 reports indications of structures about it are rather later. If so why does the mound lead up to the broch instead of more generally about it ? I remember that Mine Howe is said to have been reached via one of the other mounds - perhaps it wasn't simply a case of this being the only dry route at the time.
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**Little Howe of Hoxa** submitted by howar : farm and mound viewed from uphill, isolated stone appears to mark edge of origina moundl (Vote or comment on this photo)

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