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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643950

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/643950

HY31SE 1 3642 1277.

(HY 3636 1271) Cuween Hill - a Maes-Howe-type round grass-covered chambered cairn, about 55ft in diameter and 8ft 6 ins high, with evidence of at least eight interments.

A S Henshall 1963; RCAHMS 1946; M M Charleson 1902; V G Childe and W D Simpson 1961 also Orkney Herald 20 June 1888 and The Orcadian June 23rd 1888.

Cuween Hill chambered cairn is as described and illustrated by the above authorities.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 22 April 1966.

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