Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619418

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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This remarkable tomb - an elongated variant of the Maes Howe

type - was excavated in 1849 by Lieu. Thomas. Subsequently it got

into a very dilapidated state, a graphic account of which is given

by Corrie who saw it in 1928, shortly before it was taken into

guardianship and given a concrete domed roof. The interior is

further noteworthy for some markings, including eye-brow motifs,

on the stones. No ancient finds were made in the main or side-

chambers at the time of the original excavation.

[R1 - R7]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]