Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 618852

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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'There is another burgh a little to the westward of

Augmund's Howe, also built close by the beach, but considerably

less than the former. On the NW side there is a circular

enclosure of about an acre, which has at one time been under

cultivation, and has given the name Quoyness to this building'.

[R1]

Excavated 1867 by J Farrer who interpreted it as 'a large

brough' which he speculated had, subsquent to its original use,

been converted into a tomb.

[R2], cuttings in NMR ref SAS 397, [R3].

1/4 Imp plan, Dryden 1879 after Petrie 1867, annotated 'Arch

Scot 5 p 94; The Orcadian, Aug 1867; Petrie's notebook 9, pp

104-21; notes, foolscap 4 to.' [R4], NMR ref SAS 32, ORD/47/2

In Office of Works Guardianship. Account based on Farrer's

report with Dryden's plan. [R5]

Re-excavated by V G Childe followed by consolidation as a

guardianship monument. [Childe erroneously claims that the name

Augmund's or Egmonds Howe should apply to this site]. [R6]

Detailed discussion. [R7, R8]

Plan on 1/4 Imp flimsy paper, in coloured pencil [Petrie

collection]. NMR SAS, Petrie notebook no 9, in RMS.

Plan and sections, 1/2 Imp, Sir Henry Dryden 1879 after

measures by G Petrie 1867. NMR SAS

1/4 Imp section, Dryden 1879 after Petrie 1867. NMR SAS

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]