Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644750

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY41NW 1 4148 1857.

(HY 4147 1857) Tumuli (NR)

OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).

Two mounds, close together, the more southerly measuring 22ft in diameter and 3ft in height, the other 40ft in diameter and 5ft high. Both are composed mostly of fairly rich soil and are now turf and heather-covered.

The more northerly mound was excavated by the Commission on 27 August 1928. It contained a short cist (full description in J M Corrie 1929) which contained three skeletons, two of which had been pushed up into the east side of the cist to make way for the third, a crouched burial. No grave goods were found.

RCAHMS 1946; J M Corrie 1929.

Two turf-covered barrows, as described, situated in a pasture field at the top of a gentle slope. No trace of the cist can be seen in the more northerly one.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(RL) 12 June 1967.