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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]
