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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643250
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643250
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.
