Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644205

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY31NW 7 3173 1553, 3175 1551 and 3175 1550

See also HY31NW 8 and HY31NW 9.

(HY 3173 1553: HY 3175 1551: HY 3175 1550) Tumuli (NR)

OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).

The mounds are artificial, composed of earth and stones. 'In some of these mounds (but see also HY31NW8 and 9) there have been found ashes and burnt bones'.

Name Book 1880.

These mounds, thickly covered by vegetation, are all about 3ft high and vary from 30 to 37ft in diameter.

RCAHMS 1946.

Three barrows, situated on a false crest at about 100ft OD,generally as described by the Commission, but now measuring in diameter from 8.0 to 10.0m. The smallest is cut on the N side by a peat road where, according to Mr Isbister (Mr M Isbister of Buckquoy, Harray), an urn containing ashes was discovered about 50 years ago by the late Mr Spence of Gorn. The urn was destroyed.

A fourth low mound, c.4.0m in diameter and 0.4m high, is contiguous to the N arc of the Largest barrow. It may be another barrow, or

merely spoil.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 8 June 1966.