Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 620583

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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Situated on wet moor, at the foot of the Tooin of Rusht. It

has been so much disturbed that no satisfactory measurements can

be given. It was excavated in Febuary 1849 by Petrie and Thomas.

Nearly semi-circular in outline and consisting of sandy clay under

a layer of peat fully 1ft thick. They discovered a cist 6ft down

which measures 18in long by 1ft broad and 8-10in deep. In the cist

was a broken clay urn, 10in long by 7in wide, it was inverted over

a handful of ashes and burnt bones. [R1]

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]