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Field Visit

Date June 1970

Event ID 1156264

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156264

Pierowall HY 43 48 HY44NW 30

In May 1970 workmen digging foundations for council houses encountered a kitchen-midden deposit of shells, animal bones and burnt stones, beneath blown sand at HY 4367 4870. An oval beach stone with a hollow about the size of a foot and four inches deep was found on this occasion; A similar midden is said to have been found during foundation-digging on a new house site in 1969 at HY 4353 4847.

RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1970.

(OR 921-2).

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