Salt Knowe

Nearest town:
Stromness (5km SW)
OS reference:
HY293133
OS sheet:
6
Latitude:
59° 0' 4.21 N
Longitude:
3° 13' 50.85 W
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Image of Salt Knowe (Round Barrow(s)) by Ravenfeather

Photo taken 6th May 2014. Salt Knowe still fenced off. As can be seen the ‘anti-rabbit’ precautions don’t seem to be terribly effective!

Image credit: Paul Kesterton
Ravenfeather
Ravenfeather May 9, 2014
Image of Salt Knowe (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

Salt Knowe has an amazingly flat top as if something has been carved off the top

Image credit: wideford
wideford
wideford Feb 18, 2013
Image of Salt Knowe (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

from W end of new coastal path with edge of Ring of Brodgar far right, folk sitting on top for ?picnic

Image credit: wideford
wideford
wideford May 19, 2010

Articles

Salt Knowe

Ravenfeather
Ravenfeather May 9, 2014

Visited 6th May 2014

Gorgeous day at Brodgar. I walked over to the huge mound of Salt Knowe, still currently fenced off, to see how the anti-rabbit proofing was getting on. It didn’t take long before I had my answer, as several families of bunnies could be seen happily enjoying the sunshine on the slopes of the mound.

The green matting used to cover the Knowe currently gives it a threadbare appearance, and several holes leading to burrows were clearly visible gnawed through the mesh, so it looks like a rethink may be in order!

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C
CARL Jul 10, 2012

Visited 4.6.12

This Barrow is huge – approximately 30 metres across x 3 metres high.

An information board stated that it has never been excavated and it is thought that there may be a passage grave inside. The barrow is comparable in size to Maeshowe.
I see Wideford states it has been surveyed so the info board is out of date.

You get a good view of the Ring of Brodgar from the top of the Barrow.

I couldn’t see ant trace of the cist – perhaps it has grown over?

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wideford
wideford Aug 14, 2009

It’s in a terrible state, what were rabbit scrapes is now an extensive burrow system – it would be better excavated before it becomes a complete unstratifiable mess

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wideford
wideford Apr 24, 2004

Behind the Ring of Brodgar in the RH corner of the field there is a cist-like structure at the top of this mound, though all I could locate on my visit was the turf-covered edge of a long horizontal slab at the side facing the loch. During an excavation nine pieces of silver ‘ring-money’ were found.

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