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Field Visit
Date June 1981
Event ID 1156092
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156092
The Lum Head HY 4221 4910 HY44NW 14
This Orkney-Cromarty round tomb stands on a high shoulder of an E-facing hill at lphs (60m OD). The oval mound had been partly excavated before 1928 exposing four upright slabs, which were planned by Henshall in 1957. Only the tops of these showed above ground suggesting that a substantial part of the chamber survives. One of the slabs had ceased to be visible by 1970.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981.
(RCAHMS Notebook, Orkney, Na. 2, 28 June 1928; RCAMS 1946, ii, p. 352, No. 1042; Henshall 1963, 205; OR 860).
