Nearhouse

Nearest town:
Kirkwall (6km W)
OS reference:
HY508068
OS sheets:
6, 7
Latitude:
58° 56' 44.92 N
Longitude:
2° 51' 18.42 W
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Image of Nearhouse (Artificial Mound) by wideford

right of image may include turf-covered field boundary wall

Image credit: wideford
wideford
wideford Jul 27, 2006

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Nearhouse

wideford
wideford May 28, 2004

Continue along the Hawell road and you come to a spot where a church on the hillside overlooks a tiny disused quarry. just at the end you turn tightleft at the junction. At the top of this section of road is a thriving farm with modern sheds, immense by Orkney standards. At the back right corner you can see a long mound (HY509067) of bare earth of comparable size to the fence. This is liberally covered with stones, of which many are bloody big. I have photos but this is simply tons of material dumped from somewhere else. No, my site is a rather slighter mound in the field along which the road turns again. It lies towards the upper right corner of this field. On this same side a large-scale map marks a well. Nothing thus far along the road has a NMRS.

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