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Note

Date 1980

Event ID 1135930

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1135930

Egmondshowe, Eis Ness, Sanday HY c. 676 375 HY63NE 5

Eleven mounds connected by a bank forming an arc round the large cairn of Egmondshowe (HY63NE 3). One mound excavated by the Ordnance Survey contained two cists with human bones.

RCAHMS 1980

(RCAHMS 1946, ii, pp. 169-70, No. 451; OR 307)

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