Field Visit
Date June 1982
Event ID 1156045
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Knowe of Backiskaill HY 4853 5090 HY45SE 2
On grassland immediately E of Backiskaill Post Office is an exceptionally large burnt mound of the classic crescentic form and about 2.9m high; some burnt stones are visible, and a roughly rectangular, low platform appears to project to the W of the main mound.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1982.
(Marwick 1925, 40; RCAHMS Notebook Orkney, No. 2, 9 and 13 July 1928; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 185, No. 538; Wainwright MS; OR 793).
