Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 619722

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619722

...The whole area, of course, along Knucker Hill, Gallow

Hill, and Fitty Hill, and particularly to the S of Fitty Hill,

shows evidence of prehistoric settlement. The old gentleman does

recall a rather odd thing in the neighbourhood when he was a

child. A farmer, when clearing ditches, found his spade go

through the ground, exposing a hole, and one could hear them

clattering their way downwards for a considerable distance. The

hole was too narrow for an adult body to enter - some persuasion

was put upon the child to go down, but he refused. So far as is

known, the hole was covered over with a large stone - and there

the matter rests to this day. - Letter dated 14th February,

1959, to A. S. Henshall, copy

in Detailed Records filed under OR 1180

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]