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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643709
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643709
HY31SW 17 3452 1343.
A well-defined mound, measuring about 35ft in diameter and 3ft high, lies on the NW shoulder of the Hill of Heddle on the S. side of the public road between Finstown and Stromness. In its centre is exposed a short cist, and, in 1859, a burial was found within the mound, comprising cramp and bones under an inverted urn. The urn was embedded in clay and surrounded by large blocks of stone and lumps of cramp in which were fragments of calcined bone.(G Petrie 1927).
Many loose stones are scattered over the mound.
RCAHMS 1946.
This tumulus was located at HY 3452 1343 and is as described by the RCAHMS, except that the west side of the cist has been removed. The capstone, 1.3m x 0.9m, lies at the E. edge of the mound.
The present whereabouts of the urn could not be ascertained.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 11 May 1966.
