Archaeology Notes
Event ID 643950
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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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.