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The trouble with the Five Hillocks sites in Orkney is that only one of them is. But I wonder if the name has been taken amiss, that there was a collection of sites called the Five Hillocks collectively. For it is straining credulity that the three are in such a relatively small area of Orkney and nowhere else ; HY40NE 4 Rasheyburn at HY45980536, HY40NE 15 Lang Hill at 49250690 with HY50NW 7 the Howies of Bossack at ~50460844. Does anyone know of a similar situation elsewhere ?

I'm a bit confused to be honest Wideford. Can you you explain slowly.

K x

In the 18th century the Rashieburn Barrows were seen as five tumuli arranged roughly in a circle, and some identified them with the Circle of Loda in the (now very much discredited) poems of Ossian.