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Field Visit
Date June 1981
Event ID 1156094
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156094
Vere (ORK 52) HY 4583 5045 HY45SE 19
This Orkney-Cromarty stalled tomb survives as a mound 19m in diameter and 1m high, in front of Vere farmhouse. Some of the internal slab-divisions can be seen, and the mound lies within an enclosure covering approximately 0.3ha, the wall of which incorporates two smaller mounds (et Egmondshowe, Sanday; RCAHMS 1980, p.11, nos. 1 and 7).
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981.
(RCAHMS. Notebook, Orkney, No. 2, 29 June 1928; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 353, No. 1044; Henshall 1963, 243; OR 759).
