The wind has dropped and the weather forecast looks hopeful, it's time to stop lazing around and get on our bikes. We leave tomorrow for two days cycling round Mainland Orkney. We are leaving most of our luggage here with Tom's sister and have booked in for B & B + evening meal half way round. There are lots of archeological sites to visit and it looks much less hilly than the Shetlands.
Today we visited Mine Howe. An iron age mound surrounded by a ditch, only partly excavated. Twenty nine, very narrow, steep stone steps lead down to a small stone lined chamber. Nobody knows what it was for. A couple of burials were found in another mound close by. One, a woman, seemed to have been buried properly with grave goods, and the other, a man, appeared to have been crammed in, with his toes cut off and laid next to him. to make him fit. Perhaps the grave digger didn't make it big enough and it was raining. (My theory).
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