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Desk Based Assessment
Date 10 October 1963
Event ID 644921
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644921
HY41SW 4 4177 1292.
(HY 4177 1292) Chambered Mound (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1903).
'Chambered Cairn, Quanterness. ....... a conspicuous green mound marks the site of a chambered structure which was explored at some date shortly before 1805. (G Barry 1805).
The mound is of considerable size, measuring about 90ft. in diameter, and about 10ft 6in in height. Its original form appears to have been that of a truncated cone, 128ft in circumference at the base and 14ft high. On the left side of the mound there seems to have been a long passage leading into the interior, but this cannot now be identified with certainty by examination of the surface. Further, only at one place are there any remains of the chamber apparent, and these are very fragmentary. A ground plan of the structure, drawn at the date when it was originally excavated, is reproduced here ... All of the chambers were built on the 'beehive' principle. The floors were of dark, earthy clay, plentifully charged with the much-broken unburnt bones of birds and domestic animals. Some human bones occurred in the deposit and a complete human skeleton was found in one of the compartments.'
RCAHMS 1946; Barry 1805
Maes-Howe-type.
A S Henshall 1963.
Information from OS (JH) 10 October 1963
