Lamb Ness

Lamb Ness is a peninsula in the southeast of the Orkney island of Stronsay in Scotland .

On the Ness there are two bare Cairns A and B with diameters of about 10.5 (A) and 14.0 (B) meters and heights of 0.5 (A) and 0.4 (B) m about 6.0 m apart. The remains were initially classified as the remains of an old building, likely a brough.

The top of Cairn A, from which five panels protrude through the lawn, suggest a tripartite Stalled Cairn . The stumps of the plates are perpendicular to the east-west axis. The compartments are about 1.5, 1.35 and 1.8 m long.

Cairn B appears to contain a structure from a later period. A third hill is unclear whether it is a cairn. Despite the ongoing discussion that the L-shaped structure (The Danes Pier) on the south side of Lamb Ness is man-made, it is now assumed to have been formed naturally. Parallels to Sanday and Papa Westray prove this.

Web links

• Entry on Lamb Ness  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
• map
• Picture from "Danes Pier"

Coordinates: 59 ° 5 ′  N , 2 ° 33 ′  W