Note
Date 1980
Event ID 1135910
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Egmondshowe, Sanday HY 6765 3754 HY63NE 3
Marwick records this as the pronunciation although the map form 'Augmund Howe' would be linguistically preferable. The New Statistical Account makes very clear that it is not an alternative name for the Quoyness cairn nearby (HY63NE 1). A probable chambered cairn on the shore edge, in 1820s was a mound 5.5m (18 ft) high, but has been severely attacked and its centre has been scoured out by the sea.
RCAHMS 1980
(NSA, xv, Orkney, 136; Marwick 1923a, 24; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 169, No. 450; Wainwright MS 1960; OR 306)
