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Orkney monuments.
MS 6160
Description Orkney monuments.
Date 7/1861 to 14/3/1865
Collection Records of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number MS 6160
Category All Other
Scope and Content Printed material collected by Irvine, mostly newspaper cuttings (many from 'The Orcadian', others possibly 'The Scotsman'. 6160/1 Drawing traced by Irvine of plan and section of round church at Orphir, to accompany newscutting 'Notice of remains of a round church with semicircular apse in the parish of Orphir, Orkney' by Petrie (July 1861). 6160/2 'Shapinsay. "Borrowstown's hillock"' (July 1861); 'The burg of "Borrowston" Shapinsay', written by Petrie on Farrer's excavations (28 November 1861). 6160/3 Letter to 'The Orcadian' by Farrer about excavations at Saverough (Saevarhowe) in Birsay (2 August 1862). 6160/4 Maes Howe: 'Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne', report on lecture by Edward Charlton on 6 August 1862; drawing of Maes Howe 'dragon'; extract from Charlton's paper on Maes Howe inscriptions in Archaeol Aeliana. 6160/5 'Mr Petrie's lecture on the ancient inhabitants of Orkney', report of lecture in Kirkwall (6 January 1863). 6160/6 Two reports of lecture to Soc Ant Scot on Maeshowe inscriptions by J M Mitchell on 12 January 1863. 6160/7 'Burray', report on excavations on chambered tomb (27 February 1863). 6160/8 'Antiquarian researches' on Orkney tumuli (4 August 1863). 6160/9 'Harray. A grave and skeleton found' (29 September 1863). 6160/10 'Rendall', cist in mound (3 Nov 1863); cist at Warsiter in Sanday (5 Sept 1863). 6160/11 'Firth. Lecture on the Antiquities of Orkney' by Petrie on 16 Feb 1864. 6160/12 'Discovery of ancient subterranean building', chambered cairn on Wideford Hill (1 March 1864). 6160/13 'Discovery of a skeleton in the Moss of Evie' (24 May 1864); 'Stromness', report on deer bones (7 June 1864). 6160/14 'Discovery of the ruins of a very ancient building' at Newhall, Deerness (7 June 1864); 'The ancient ruins lately discovered in Deerness' report by Petrie (June 1864). 6160/15 'Walls. Relics of Antiquity', report of stone cist with two skulls (14 March 1865).
Medium ink
Accession Number 1975/12
External Reference SAS 397
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