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The promised excavations are finally underway. The head is in favour of a Viking chief’s settlement, the traditional view is an early Viking monastery, but they don’t rule out something previous
bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/scotland_aod.shtml?scotland/aroundorkney (for today). Myself I would like to know about the unnoted lower promontory wall ( megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=a312&file=index&do=showpic&pid=28653 )as it looks to date from a period when the brough had better connection to the ‘mainland’ ,but hey-ho
Coming up on the road from south to Stem Howe with a low autumn sun delineating the various shapes made by the knowes and picking out features on them. The whole is so much sculpted that it is no longer a moraine, if ever it was. Seem to be various levels too. Thought this to be only the upper part but this is an ilusion of time passing sentence on the steeper bits. Partway up the southern edge where it nears the the road the harsh sunlight brings into relief a low ridge, only a couple of feet across a few inches high, forming an edge to the mound as if to stop visitors falling unawares. This looks to stop just where the most man-alters bit starts. I notice it begins at the top end of a twisted rectangular hollow or depression, which doesn’t look to be from antiquarian investigation, though possibly a long scoop.
