Knowe of Angerow

Also known as:
Knowe of Angcrow
Nearest town:
Stromness (8km SE)
OS reference:
HY235172
OS sheet:
6
Latitude:
59° 2' 6.68 N
Longitude:
3° 19' 59.11 W
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Image of Knowe of Angerow (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

Knowe of Angeron and ‘companion’ from previous field

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wideford Oct 2, 2006
Image of Knowe of Angerow (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

looking across depression to other ‘hump’ by knowe

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wideford Oct 2, 2006
Image of Knowe of Angerow (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

view of knowe with Lochs of Skaill and Clumly behind left and right respectively

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Articles

Knowe of Angerow

wideford
wideford Oct 2, 2006

From the Knowe of Geoso you can easily make out the twin hump of this site as you spy along the fenceline towards Yesnaby. Only a few barred metal gates between the two sites, two-and-a-bit fields, passing by the practically invisible Knowe of Nebigarth along the way. Unlike the Knowes of Nebigarth and Geoso this is named for an individual – presumably like Craw Howe, named for the excavator. Being me I came the hard way, sneaking up on the main mound. Something didn’t quite add up when I compared what I saw with the description.

Approaching from the field’s eastern wall slightly downhill the first mound I came to had a central concavity where someone had dug the top. Looking past this (the much mutilated barrow or the rise?) I saw directly the left-hand hump of the big stuff with the knowe up and over to its right with big stones on top. Finding nothing I proceeded to the Knowe of Angerow itself, circling round taking pictures. No grass lies on the upper part of the mound, it lies bare with a few big stones mostly around the soil’s edge and on the surface. On the very top two slabs over a metre square rest on one another at an angle to the ground supported by just one blocky stone. Despite being rather less than half the size and sitting on a mound the setting reminds me a little of the Stones of Via. To its side some smaller stones lie on and in a low earthen platform (about a metre across) as if this had simply eroded out – it looks too fragile to have lasted long. There seems to be a bank or ditch about the knowe. I am not sure if this is so or whether it is part of the space between the two humps. Could the Knowe of Angerow be the remains of a bell barrow maybe ?

Miscellaneous

Knowe of Angerow
Round Barrow(s)
wideford
wideford Oct 2, 2006

HY21NW 20 goes by the name of the main barrow at HY23521720. The Knowe of Angerow/Angcrow /S of Velzian is a 35’D 4’ tumulus which has been opened from top – a cist was noted by a local to have been removed in1882 [which may simply mean that it was known to have been too late for inclusion in that year’s O.S. map] To its south by 10 yards is a slight swelling of some kind. Then at HY23471715 there is a much mutilated possible barrow with what has been taken to be a cist slab 0.4m long and 0.3m high protruding at the NW.

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