Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643503

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY31SW 20 3039 1280.

'... at the north-west end of the Bridge of Brodgar is a large dilapidated tumulus, which appears to be the ruin of an ancient stone building, perhaps a Pict's castle; close by it are two small standing stones (HY31SW 10).'

F W L Thomas 1852.

'The dilapidated traces of a ruined cairn or mound...' in which a number of relics of an unspecified nature have been found.

RCAHMS 1946.

All that remains of the mound is an area of disturbed ground, approx. 20.0 m. diameter, situated at HY 3039 1280 at the top of a low ridge. It has been extensively quarried on its NE side, near the road, and reduced on its SW side by cultivation. Its original size and typology cannot

be ascertained.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 11 May 1966.

In the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) is an incised stone sinker and an ornamental stone ball, almost certainly from this tumulus.

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1885 (articles exhibited); Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1888 (Donations); J Noble 1888; RCAHMS 1946.