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North Ronaldsay, Southness
Settlement (Iron Age) - (Medieval)
Site Name North Ronaldsay, Southness
Classification Settlement (Iron Age) - (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Southness, Farm Mound; Northness; Nesstoun
Canmore ID 3665
Site Number HY75SE 18
NGR HY 76767 52662
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3665
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
(Scheduled as Southness, farm mound). The monument comprises a substantial farm mound immediately to the E of Southness farm. A slight hollow running from E to W, which the modern dyke follows, divides the mound into two parts.
Farm mounds are a phenomenon of Arctic Norway but about 30 monuments which may be related are also known in Scotland, where they are confined to Sanday, North Ronaldsay and Papa Westray. They probably represent a settlement mound which has been occupied over many generations, where the decay of turf structures as well as the build-up of midden and manure has led to the creation of a mound. They date from the Iron Age and, predominantly, the medieval periods.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2000.
Note (1980)
Southness, North Ronaldsay HY 7677 5263 HY75SE
Very prominent large mound immediately adjacent to house is probably a tell resulting from earlier phases of the settlement.
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 209)
