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Sweyn's Castle - burnt mound (Prehistoric)

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Sweyn's Castle - burnt mound (Prehistoric)
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Sweyn's Castle marks a prehistoric burnt mound in Orkney Islands, where heat and stone still touch beneath the grass. The site belongs to an old world of fire, water and repeated human choice. It is not a grand hall or a named kingdom, but a small violent clarity: people kept returning there to burn, shape or transform something with heat.
Sweyn's Castle - burnt mound (Prehistoric) is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Orkney Islands. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.

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Photo: Derek Mayes · CC BY-SA 2.0