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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643830
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643830
HY31SW 24 3025 1165.
A mound, apparently artificial and under cultivation in August 1928, stands on the S. side of the road, opposite the Standing Stones Hotel. It measures 55 yds N-S by 46 yds E-W and from 11 to 15 ft in height, and appears to have been slightly cut into on the N. side when the road was made. No finds have been recorded: its size suggests that it may be chambered.
RCAHMS 1946.
This mound, probably natural, is situated at HY 3025 1165 in a level field, and is generally as described by the Commission. Recent ploughing has rendered its perimeter indefinite.
Visited by OS (NKB) 13 May 1966.
The results of a geophysical survey, carried out in August 2001 for Orkney Archaeological Trust, suggest that the mound is not natural.
NMRS, MS/1105/1
Scheduled as Little Barnhouse, mound.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 January 2002.
The mound feature was excavated in the early 1890s and reported in 'The Orkney Herald'. It describes the uncovering of a chamber, a chamber with a passage and two lateral chambers.
The Orkney Herald, 1891 and 1893
HY 3025 1165 Site identified as part of a desk-based assessment and walk-over survey.
Jacobs Babtie, 2005.
