Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643250

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY21SE 15 2941 1328.

(HY 2941 1328) Tumulus (NR)

OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).

A large flat-topped mound, but whether artificial or not cannot be ascertained without excavation.

RCAHMS 1946.

This probable cairn, an apparently artificial, grass-covered mound of earth and stones, measures 18.0m. in diameter and 1.8m. high. There is a shallow central depression in its top.

Resurveyed at 1.2500.

Visited by OS (RB) 24 April 1966.