Ormiegill North
Ormiegill North , north of Ulbster, near Wick in Caithness in Scotland, is the remainder of a short megalithic complex of the Orkney-Cromarty (OC) type, a so-called Stalled Cairn with only five sections (four sides - one head niche) in a round hill of 7.5 m diameter. The round hill was built over in a later phase with a very short, but relatively wide, double-horned stone mound . The chamber was already excavated in 1865 by J. Anderson and R. I. Shearer. Today the facility looks very dilapidated and the remains of the internal structure are partially covered by modern structures.
The remains consist of a pile of stones and rubble 15.2 m × 11 m and 1.6 m high with low "horns". The remains of the chamber are visible, but were disturbed by the installation of a combat post. The approximately 3.9 m long and one meter wide corridor, which forms a kind of antechamber, is located on the southeast side of the cairn and is marked by a pair of portal stones one meter high, which leaves a gap of 0.5 m. The walls of the antechamber are made of dry masonry . At the northwest end are two 1.5 m high slabs, separated by a 0.6 m wide gap that leads into the main chamber. The approximately oval main chamber is approximately 3.1 m long and 2.8 m wide. It is divided by two 0.7 m wide panels. The north-west end of the chamber is marked by a large upright slab that ends the head niche.
The finds consisted of a club head, flint tools and ceramics ( Western Neolithic ware ) from the Neolithic, some of them have been lost.
Near the Ormiegill Cairns is a large stone block with a groove up to three centimeters deep and a series of wedge holes on the side. The editing is obviously older. Anderson suggests this could be a raw cross-slab. The stone measures 3.17 × 0.3 to 1.0 m.
literature
- David V. Clarke, Trevor G. Cowie, Andrew Foxon: Symbols of power at the time of Stonehenge. Her Majesty's Stationery Office, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-11-492455-4 .
- J. Anderson: Scotland in pagan times: the Bronze and Stone ages: the Rhind lectures in archeology for 1882 . Edinburgh 1886. pp. 244-48
Web links
- Entry on Ormiegill North in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
- photos
Coordinates: 58 ° 22 ′ 11.4 " N , 3 ° 8 ′ 35.5" W.