STENNESS TO MAESHOWE

Taking in c. 104 ha, survey in the Stenness–Maeshowe area identified a large number of responses. Campaigns of deep ploughing and drainage from the mid-nineteenth century onwards have impacted on the surface appearance of the area, levelling many sites and bringing previously marshy areas into cultivation. This has created a surface appearance at odds with the record provided by gradiometer and related surveys across the area. These reveal several clusters of prehistoric settlement, all of them currently undated, and a continuation of settlement remains beyond the limits of the excavated areas at the Late Neolithic settlement of Barnhouse. Prior