Orkney Smr Note

Date 1981

Event ID 619435

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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An Orkney Cromarty short horned cairn with stalled chamber,

much reduced and disturbed, grass-covered, but with finer, shorter

growth which shows up horns and indicates otherwise indeterminate

limits of cairn. Body has been circular, about 46ft diameter,

with probably 4 horns of which 3 are traceable. NE horn most

definite, 6ft wide, 17ft long, square-ended and curving slightly

towards the E. SE and SW horns are stumps 7ft and 5ft long but

perfectly evident. NW horn not visible, but threee slabs in line

running from the cairn stones, presumably part of some secondary

structure. Body of cairn stands up to 4ft high, but it is howked

into at centre where stall-stones of a chamber at least 15ft long,

aligned ENE-WSW, are exposed. The remains of the entrance passage

mentioned by RCAMS are not visible. [R3]

Visited, D Fraser & E J Brundle May 81, [R4]

Information from Orkney SMR