Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644836

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY33SE 15 3742 3217.

(HY 3741 3217) Knowe of Dale (NR).

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

"Knowe of Dale". A completely grass-covered mound, of which a considerable portion of the SW side has been removed, standing in formerly cultivated ground now given over to pasture. It measures approx 70 ft NW-SE by 60 ft NE-SW and varies in height from about 4ft 6 ins at the NW to 7ft 6 ins at the SE.

An excavation made by the proprietor, Mr W G Grant, established the presence of burnt material and part of a slab-built box c.5ft by c.4ft. RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1928.

"Knowe of Dale", a crecentic burnt mound, open to the W with the partly exposed slab-built box visible near the centre.

Surveyed at 1:10 000.

Visited by OS(AA) 11 October 1972.