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Field Visit
Date June 1983
Event ID 1156134
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156134
Queena Howe HY 4250 4948 HY44NW 11
Where the sand gives way to a rocky shore on the W side of Links of Noltland, a slightly raised and hummocky area of rough grass is dominated by a steep mound 22m across and 2.2m high, which stands 20m back from the shoreline and probably contains the remains of a broch. The shore banks opposite it show an erosion-section some 85m long across a series of massive stone structures. There appear to be several concentric walls emerging from the section in its E half and re-entering in the W. The outer of these walls, against the outer side of which much shell midden material has been heaped, is built of heavy beach-boulders propped on edge, reminiscent of the 'breakwater' at Clickhimin (Hamilton 1968, p. 76 and plate xii). There is no trace of the enclosure which must have given the site its name ('quoy-mound'; such curious forms as 'Queen of Howe' arise from modern misunderstanding).
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1983.
(G Petrie, Notebook No. 9, pp. 132-3; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 352, No. 1043; DES 1977, 25; OR 690).
