Sands of Evie

Sands of Evie

The Sands of Evie is a sandy beach landform protected by the Point of Hellia headland on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. [UK Ordnance Survey Map Landranger map, Orkney, 1:50,000 scale {2002)] This beach forms the southern boundary of Aikerness Bay, an element of Eynhallow Sound. Immediately to the east is Gurness, a rather well preserved Iron Age broch. According to C.Michael Hogan the Gurness Broch is of drystone construction and "the Iron Age round tower fort is flanked by a number of ancillary structures and impressive concentric ditch and rampart outer defences; moreover, the rocky shoreline cliffs posed an formidable approach for marine invaders". [C.Michael Hogan, "Gurness", The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham, 02 December 2007 [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=341] ] A Pictish slab was discovered on the Sands of Evie. [ [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol_101/101_130_133.pdf "Two New Pictish Symbol Stones from Orkney] ]

ee also

* Costa Head
* Evie

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