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Orkney Smr Note
Event ID 620151
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/620151
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.]
