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Not much to see here at all, except a very large grassy mound, and no trace of any entrance. The very friendly farmer whose land it lies on, told us it was excavated in 1974. |
Posted by Jane9th July 2004ce |
| Look up at Quanterness Farm and the site is at the sub-rectangular plantation off a corner of the house just to its left (a plantation that I mistook for pasture when I looked on CANMORE the morn). The way I went was up a track before the farmtrack itself and then turning right at the modern little house. The plantation gates are scrappy and if it had not been attached to the big house a looksee might have been in order. But I figured there would be nothing to see under all those trees and left. Retracing my steps as I went round the corner I took a last look back and thought I saw the mound peeping through the trees at me. So if you're desperate to notch this one on your belt you can. |
Posted by wideford25th May 2004ce Edited 25th May 2004ce |
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| RCAHMS NMRS record HY41SW 4 . A twice-excavated site on the lower slopes of Wideford Hill , on a natural rise above the Quanterness Farm off the main Kirkwall-Stromness road . In the Iron Age a roundhouse was built through the E side . No internal structure can be seen as the site was sealed . |
Posted by wideford 5th March 2004ce Edited 5th March 2004ce |
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