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Midhowe Chambered Cairn
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Midhowe Chambered Cairn submitted by SandyG on 30th Sep 2015. Looking north along the chamber. (3rd June 2015).
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Knowe of Lairo
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3
Knowe of Lairo submitted by DrewParsons on 17th Oct 2010. The south east facing entrance. September 2010.
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Log Text: due to excessive number of visitors since it was on TV the farmer has blocked access, with concern for people's safety and the cairn's protection.
Knowe of Ramsay
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Knowe of Ramsay submitted by DrewParsons on 16th Oct 2010. There was no obvious entry into the ruined stalled cairn. September 2010.
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Knowe of Yarso
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Knowe of Yarso submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 404281
On Rousay. A neolithic stalled cairn about 50' long x 25' wide entered by a 13' long passage at the eastern end. The chamber (which my have originally been two-storied) is divided into 4 compartments by 3 pairs of upright slabs.
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Blackhammer
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5
Blackhammer submitted by steveco on 24th Feb 2002. Blackhammer Chambered Cairn HY415276. Ancient cairn entombed in a modern bunker.
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Taversoe Tuick
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 9th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Taversoe Tuick submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 426276
On Rousay this is a two-storied stalled cairn, one of only two known. The round cairn is about 30' in diameter. The lower chamber, reached by a 19' passage, is about 12' long x 5' wide x 5' high, and is divided into 4 cells by upright slabs. The upper chamber, whose floor is the celing of the lower chamber, is reached by an 11' long passage, and is divided into 2 compartments. The cairn is built on a hill so each passage is at ground level, one on the uphill side, the other on the dow...
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Log Text: located on a knoll next to Trumland burn
Yetnasteen
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 10th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Yetnasteen submitted by enkidu41 on 6th May 2004. HY 447327
An over 7' high standing stone on Rousay. The name comes from Old Norse "Jotunna-steinn" meaning Giant Stone.
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Fold of Setter
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Misc. Earthwork
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Access 2
Fold of Setter submitted by DrewParsons on 19th Oct 2010. The site sign. September 2010.
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Stone of Setter
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Ambience 5 Access 2
Stone of Setter submitted by LizH on 17th Nov 2004. The Stone of Setter is an impressive site, very tall and imposing.
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Braeside
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
Braeside submitted by LizH on 19th Nov 2004. Braeside Orkney
I was on a minibus trip round Eday when I insisted on jumping out to take a picture of this; even though it was very misty. The other 6 people stayed firmly on the bus, although this was one of Eday's 'sights'. But despite the mist, I got a nice picture.
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Huntersquoy
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Huntersquoy Chambered Cairn submitted by shogbits on 24th Feb 2006. Huntersquoy Chambered Cairn. Apparently this is a two storey construction. I would have liked to have gone inside but the entrance was tiny and full of water at the time.
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Vinquoy
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Chambered Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 21st Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Vinquoy Chambered Cairn submitted by shogbits on 24th Feb 2006. External view of Vinquoy chambered cairn - not far from the Stone of Setter.
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Log Text: a prominent position on the hill with a superb views over the islands, and it lines up with the Setter stone and Mill loch cairn down the hill. it was very damp and there was a fine mist or dust in the chambers. The corbelled side cells are quite large compared to Wideford and Cuween. One side cell had water in.
Augmund Howe
Date Added: 25th Jun 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: Scotland (Orkney)
Visited: Yes on 20th Jun 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 3
Augmund Howe submitted by DrewParsons on 18th Oct 2010. PID photo. Sept 2010.
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Log Text: had fulmars nesting in it so i did not disturb them,
Hare Hill ring cairn
Date Added: 31st May 2022
Site Type: Cairn
Country: England (Yorkshire (West))
Visited: Yes on 28th May 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Hare Hill ring cairn submitted by drolaf on 30th May 2022. View from cairn to Pendle hill to SWW (behind Weets hill)
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Log Text: definitely one to go back to for the fantastic panorama of the Ribble valley.
White Moss SW
Date Added: 29th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2020. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 3
White Moss SW submitted by TheCaptain on 16th Oct 2017. White Moss SW viewed looking in a northeasterly direction, with its NE partner just beyond.
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Log Text: there is an additional cairn immediately (1 or 2 metres) sw of this stone circle and cairn set.
Tor of Craigoch
Date Added: 29th Apr 2022
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Tor of Craigoch submitted by h_fenton on 14th Jan 2011. A low-level oblique kite aerial photograph from the south of the hillfort 'Tor of Craigoch' with the Agnew Monument (built 1850) at its centre.
19 September 2010
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Log Text: amazing views from the top-of Ireland, the Rhinns, Loch Ryan, Ailsa Craig, the hills inland, Arran and Kintyre. A visit to the Rhinns really emphasises that the water linked all these lands as one.
Gunnerkeld
Date Added: 11th Apr 2022
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Cumbria)
Visited: Yes on 18th Sep 2021. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 2
Gunnerkeld submitted by Bladup on 8th Oct 2014. Gunnerkeld.
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Log Text: a '2x donut' with a northern 'portal' and inner facade. seems to have been built around a couple of large granite erratics.
Doon Castle (Broch)
Date Added: 11th Apr 2022
Site Type: Broch or Nuraghe
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 5 Access 3
Doon Castle (Broch) submitted by Andy B on 18th Apr 2010. A much better view of the landmark on a pleasant February day as promised after my first photo of this.
Copyright Colin McDonald and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence.
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Log Text: a great location-the broch is on a very steep rock outcrop, and would have been very hard to attack, but also very hard to escape from.
Kirkcudbright Standing Stones
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2022
Site Type: Standing Stones
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2022. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 4
Kirkcudbright Standing Stones submitted by Energyman on 20th Sep 2018. The lower stone.
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Log Text: quaint modern stones set in a sloping field. Made me think, maybe the old Bronze Age stones were not that serious either!
Rispain Camp
Date Added: 3rd Apr 2022
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Scotland (Dumfries and Galloway)
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2022. My rating: Condition 3 Access 4
Rispain Camp submitted by h_fenton on 3rd Oct 2010. Rispain Camp, a Kite Aerial Photograph taken close to the end of the day, this view is from the east.
16 September 2010 @ 6.10pm
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Log Text: in very good nick, with good views NE across Wigtown bay to Cairnharrow and the hills around Cairnhulie.
turn left at the road sign and park up at the visitors car park. then it's a short walk.