Coastal Assessment Survey of Burray, Flotta, Graemsay, Hoy and South Ronaldsay

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Date 1997

Event ID 553558

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Type Project

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Coastal Zone Assessment Surveys

Carried out by EASE

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
882473	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	When surveyed in 1929, this site was visible as a slightly hollowed mound, some 30m in diameter. It stood up to 2m high and there were traces of a wall to the NE side. It was located on the margins of cultivated land and was thought to be the remains of a much denuded broch or chambered cairn. By 1973, all that survived was an uneven, roughly circular area of ground, c.20m in diameter and it was thought to have suffered coastal erosion. This site was not located during this survey. [...]	August 1973
640200	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	A concentration of rounded beach pebbles lie in rogh grassland which slopes down to a stony beach. The 'cairn' is up to 1.75m high and would appear to be ex-situ rubble derived from a collapsed structure. [...]	August 1997
640258	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Located in intertidal zone [...]	August 1997

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MS 1031/4

Report on a Coastal Zone Assessment Survey of Orkney: Burray, Flotta, Graemsay, Hoy and South Ronaldsay.

Coastal Assessment Survey of Burray, Flotta, Graemsay, Hoy and South Ronaldsay

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