Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 614207

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/614207

Eight mounds within a bank having a spread of 10ft, height 1ft - 1ft 6in. Possible entrance in NW. Enclosure is 140ft x 110ft. Mounds appear to represent upcast of ditch-like depressions between them, all have been dug into. In ploughing field to the S the farmer found a glass bead, a leaf-shaped arrow head and a stone hammer. [R1]

Eight variously-sized earth mounds surrounded by a slight bank with no apparent entrance. One mound almost destroyed, the others have shallow depressions in the tops but on has a deeper depression containing an earth-fast stone possibly part of a cist. Probably tumuli. Cultivated, but farmer has found nothing. OS visit April 1964.

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]