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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 644740
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644740
HY40NE 10 4704 0679
Hillock of Garth [NAT]
Cairn [NR]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.
The Hillock of Garth is an ovate cairn, 22.5m long, NNW-SSE x 19.5m broad and 1.6m. high situated on moorland at HY 4704 0679. A large pit and smaller holes recently dug in the top show the cairn to consist of stone slabs, but there is no cist or internal chambering visible.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 12 April 1964.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (ISS) 21 May 1973.
This cairn is situated on the boundary between the parishes of Kirkwall & St Ola and St Andrews & Deerness.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2001.
