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Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619416

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619416

During extension to Pierowall quarry to provide stone for

the Gill Pier extension, a decorated stone was found in January

1981. The site was investigated on behalf of SDD by N R J Neil

and F W Moran of North of Scotland Archaeological Services, and

subsequently excavated by an Edinburgh team under the direction

of N Sharples. During that excavation, another major piece of

the decorated stone was found. The two pieces, which fit

together, are covered with spiral ornament of the Newgrange

style, and are on display in Tankerness House.

The excavation, which was only partial, suggested that the

decorated stone had been structurally part of the passage of a

second millennium BC this was replaced by a settlement and

subsequently by a massive circular structure of the Early Iron

Age, either a large roundhouse or small ring-fort.

[R1], [R2], [R3]

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