Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 620151

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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The cairn is situated in rough grazing on a low rock-edged

peninsula at 50ft OD. 'It occupies the highest part of the

ground, and appears now as merely an elongated grass-grown ridge

153ft long [overall] and over 40ft wide with its major axis

running E and W.... At its E end the mound rises about 11ft 9in

above the general level.... At each extremity there are obvious

traces of lateral projections or horns. At the E end the remains

of these are longer and diverge more widely from one another than

at the W end, a space of 79ft intervening between their tips on

the E, while the distance between the aspices of the W horns is

only 48ft...' The top of the high E end of the cairn has been

disturbed and in the hollow is a number of massive flagstones set

on edge or on end, at right angles to the main axis of the cairn.

They suggest the presence of a chamber here.

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]