What is recorded here
Twelve hour tower on Rousay is a castle, fort or tower in Orkney Islands, Scotland. Perhaps the tower marked a fleeting moment when people measured life in hours rather than days. Maybe its stones still hold the heat of that urgent, brief awakening. Imagine a hand striking brass at the top while the sea waited below.
A named place photographed at this map point in Orkney Islands.
Built by the Norse in the 12th or 13th century, the Twelve Hour Tower on Rousay is important as a rare example of a defensive structure associated with the medieval Norse presence in the Orkney Islands.
Places near here
Old abandoned quarry at MoolieOld home or work place · 1137 yd
Rousay, HallgateBuilding (period Unassigned), Enclosure (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned), Field System (period Unassigned) · 1596 yd
RousayIsland · 1.0 mi
WhitemeadowsFarmstead (period Unassigned) · 1.1 mi
Rousay, Mid HoweLithic Implement(s) (flint)(period Unassigned) · 1.2 mi
The BurrianIslet · 1.4 mi
Grassy cliff tops of Leeon on RousayCliff or headland · 1.6 mi
Saviskaill beach (Nousty Sand)Beach / strand · 1.6 mi
Arch and cave by Scabra Head, RousayCave · 1.8 mi
Sinclair's HillMountain / peak · 1.9 mi
Blotchnie FioldMountain / peak · 2.1 mi
Landing Beach marker cairnsBeach · 2.1 miOther information
Photo: s allison · CC BY-SA 2.0