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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 644250
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644250
HY30NE 5 3750 0873.
(Group centred: HY 3750 0873) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
These six mounds vary in diameter from about 20ft to 31ft : five vary in height from 2ft to 3 1/2ft, the sixth is a "mere foundation".
To the SE of this group is another mound, not marked on the OS map. At one time it was probably 45ft in diameter and some 5ft in height. In August 1928 it was a rabbit warren, considerably broken up by the burrows, and mutilated on the N side by excavation. It is covered by light-coloured green turf, which points to its being artificial.
RCAHMS 1946.
The remains of seven small grass-covered tumuli, situated on a flat ledge of pasture-land, vary in diameter from 6.0 to 10.7m and in height from 0.2 to 1.0m. Two of them have central depressions in their tops.
No finds have been reported from any of them, and no mound corresponding to that identified by the Commission to the SE of the group was found.
Resurveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS(RL) 1 May 1966.
