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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645494
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645494
HY44SW 4 4343 4362.
(HY 4342 4363) Howa Tower (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed, (1900).
Powdykes: An Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn, now grass-grown, but which can be seen to be composed in one part of small stones and earth. The edge of the mound is well defined, but it may have been reduced in area by ploughing.
It is slightly pear-shaped in plan measuring 60' ESE- WNW by 52' SSW-NNE. The height has apparently been some-what reduced and in the centre the tops of four thin slabs, which must be 4' to 5' high,can be seen, presumably the division stones of a chamber oriented ESE-WNW. The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) gives no reason why the site should be called 'Howa Tower' except the assumption that a building may have stood on the mound.
Name Book 1879; A S Henshall 1963, visited 1957.
A chambered cairn as described and planned by Henshall and still known locally as 'Howa Tower' (ORK 42)
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (RL) 2 July 1970.
