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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643622

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643622

HY22SW 1 2445 2483.

(HY 2445 2483) Tumuli (NR)

O.S.6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).

The remains of four small mounds said to be ancient places of interment.

Name Book 1880.

The Commission says of these mounds that they were levelled some years before 1930 to provide top-dressing for poor land.

RCAHMS 1946.

An ideal position for tumuli, on prominent hill, but no trace of any mounds was seen (in a cultivated field).

Visited by OS(RL) 17 May 1967.

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