Orkney Smr Note

Date September 1982

Event ID 619358

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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No suggestion of a burnt mound. Enclosures still exactly as

described RCAMS. Four styles of masonry can be classified (1)

laid masonry of quarried flags (2) flags propped up on end,

leaning against one another face-to-face, their faces transverse

to the line of the wall (3) the technique which uses two parallel

rows of orthostats, 0.6m to 0.8m apart, the space between them

filled with flat-laid loosely-packed small stones and with

occasional transverse slabs giving the cist effect described by

RCAMS (4) single rows of edge-slabs end-to-end like Caithness

flagstone fences, used to subdivide the main enclosures. -

Although vestiges of old field boundaries are apparent here and

there on other parts of this moor, none is immediately associated

with this complex of enclosures.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Aug 82.