Dingyshowe Bay, 'peerie Howe'
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)(Possible), Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dingyshowe Bay, 'peerie Howe'
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)(Possible), Shell Midden (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Dingieshowe Bay
Canmore ID 3043
Site Number HY50SW 12
NGR HY 5475 0324
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3043
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY50SW 12 5475 0324.
At HY 5475 0324 there is a much mutilated mound, 2.0m high known as the 'Peerie Howe', on which are traces of a dry stone wall and large quantities of midden material. A shell deposit is visible in the low cliff edge adjacent.
The structure may be associated with a broch nearby (HY50SW 7). No finds have been reported.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 22 August 1964
This mound noted in 1964 as being 2m high, is now indistinguishable in the broken ground on the clifftop 150m S of the broch of Dingieshowe (HY50SW 7). In the cliff-section, however, there is a rich shell-midden deposit containing burnt stones.
RCAHMS 1987, visited April 1979.
Field Visit (22 August 1964)
At HY 5475 0324 there is a much mutilated mound, 2.0m high known as the 'Peerie Howe', on which are traces of a dry stone wall and large quantities of midden material. A shell deposit is visible in the low cliff edge adjacent.
The structure may be associated with a broch nearby (HY50SW 7). No finds have been reported.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 22 August 1964
Field Visit (April 1979)
This mound noted in 1964 as being 2m high, is now indistinguishable in the broken ground on the clifftop 150m S of the broch of Dingieshowe (HY50SW 7). In the cliff-section, however, there is a rich shell-midden deposit containing burnt stones.
RCAHMS 1987, visited April 1979.
Field Visit (April 1979)
Mound now indistinguishable from the rough landscape at clifftop level, and probably impinged upon by track. Midden deposit with many cockle and a few limpet shells visible in banks. This deposit also contains some burnt stones suggesting that the site may be a burnt mound with associated settlement.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Apr 79
