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Field Visit
Date 8 April 1964
Event ID 644804
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644804
HY40NE 5 4678 0780
(HY 4678 0780) Hillocks of Garth (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed. (1903).
The five mounds described above can still be recognised (Nos. 1-5 on survey) but only the site of one other can be identified with certainty (No. 6). Two other features in the vicinity (Nos. 7 & 8) are probably the result of comparatively recent digging. All have been mutilated by surface quarrying and building by the War Department. A segment of stone kerbing is visible at the west perimeter of mound '2'. In the centre of the mound '3' are two parallel slabs of stone 0.8m. long and 0.5m. apart orientated NW - SE which are probably the remains of a cist. (See G.P. AO/64/155/2). This and the appearance of the mounds suggests that they are probably tumuli but the farmer at Garth has found nothing of significance.
Resurveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (NKB), 8 April 1964.
