Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644484

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY42NW 30 4440 2951.

The "Knowe of Oro" (Information from Mr G Sinclair, Knarston, Rousay), the remains of a crescentic-shaped burnt mound at HY 4440 2951. It measures 18.0m NE-SW by 13.0m transversely and is 1.8m average height, and has been quarried from the SW.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(ISS) 7 October 1972.