Knowe of Crustan

Nearest town:
Stromness (20km S)
OS reference:
HY275290
OS sheet:
6
Latitude:
59° 8' 30.62 N
Longitude:
3° 16' 2.29 W
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Image of Knowe of Crustan (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

abandoned house, WWII radar station, Knowe of Crustan

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wideford
wideford May 8, 2011
Image of Knowe of Crustan (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

house a few paces W of Knowe of Crustan, both visible

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wideford
wideford May 8, 2011
Image of Knowe of Crustan (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

Knowe of Crustan barrow and mound, L & R of photo respectively

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wideford
wideford Sep 24, 2006
Image of Knowe of Crustan (Round Barrow(s)) by wideford

Knowe of Crustan frae old Windbreck track at field’s eastern edge

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wideford
wideford Sep 24, 2006

Articles

Knowe of Crustan

C
CARL Jul 18, 2012

View from road 9.6.12

I spotted 2 Barrows on the brow of the hill near a couple of buildings.

Easily seen from the road as grass covered mounds.

Knowe of Crustan

wideford
wideford Sep 24, 2006

Now I had time but there really were kie in the field. Tried hard to find any other access, including a very overgrown old track or ditch and down the old Windbrack track down to Ramly Geo, but even the old wires have been ultra-tightened now.

Knowe of Crustan

wideford
wideford Apr 24, 2005

Can you call it a field visit when you have only viewed from the road with a high-powered digicamcorder. Answers please on a postcard ;-)
Approaching Birsay from Swannay not long past the Knowes of Lingro (possibly even along the same ridge, see vid.supra I think the term is) you see two small square wartime buildings on the hillside with a grassy hump between them and directly to their right a mound. This is the Knowe of Crustan. You can easily find a mound that seems to be another fragment of this as you scan along the horizon.

Miscellaneous

Knowe of Crustan
Round Barrow(s)
wideford
wideford Apr 24, 2005

RCAHMS NMRS record no. HY22NE 5 at HY27472897 is a turf-covered barrow of 35’ diameter called the Knowe of Crustan. It sits high on a ridge and used to have a standing stone several feet tall on top of it, immediately bringing to mind the Stanerandy Tumulus not that far away. There is some damage, perhaps from the 1852 excavation whose E-W trench produced burnt bones in what is described as a “common cell”. Two wartime buildings have changed its appearance somewhat.

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