Watching Brief

Date 22 May 2001

Event ID 1032208

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1032208

Kirkdale Archaeology were asked, under the terms of the call out contract, to monitor the digging of a trench around Unstan chambered cairn on Orkney, designed to take a new fence around the monument. The cairn is a fine example of an Orcadian Neolithic chambered cairn, excavated in 1884, and today open to the public. It appears as an oval grassy mound, orientated roughly NW-SE, and with an entrance passage to the NE. A square iron fence encloses this and is due to be replaced because rabbits have penetrated it and have begun to damage the monument. The trench revealed no definite prehistoric remains.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

D Murray and G Ewart 2001

Kirkdale Archaeology