Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644289

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY22SE 11 2958 2106.

(HY 2958 2107) Tumuli (NR)

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

Two mounds of burnt stones.

RCAHMS 1946.

Two amorphous turf-covered mounds of small burnt stones and earth, 0.8m. high, known collectively as the 'Knowe of Esgar' (Information from Mr T Spence, Makerhouse, Dounby), situated at the edge of a marshy plain.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 16 May 1967.

Scheduled as Esgar, Dounby.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 December 2000.

'The Orcadian' reports that Esgar Farm was the name of the place where burnt mounds and cists were found.

M Howe 2006