Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619175

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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No local name is preserved; the site is conventionally

referred to as Midhowe Cairn although Midhowe is really the name

of the broch OR 631.

From FIELD 23 MUSEUM LOCATION & REF:

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NMA EO 459-73. Skeletal: Anatomy Dept, Aberdeen Univ.

Animal bones. Royal Scottish Museum.

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Orkney-Cromarty stalled cairn 106ft 9in long overall, the

chamber having 12 compartments. Before excavation in 1932-3 and

1934 it was a long grassy mound from which the tops of some of

the slabs projected. Now in SDD guardianship and enclosed within

a stone building. [R1]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]