Archaeology Notes

Event ID 645031

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY42NE 4 4741 2780.

Situated at HY 4741 2780 on the edge of a rocky escarpment is a chambered cairn measuring 20.0m N-S by 17.0m and 1.8m maximum height. Towards the N end a straight stretch of drystone walling is exposed, 2.6m long running N-S. From it to the W a lintelled passage 0.3m wide and 1.0m long leads into a corbelled oval cell, visible through a hole in its roof and measuring 1.5m N-S by 1.0m transversely. The top of the mound has been extensively dug into and little that is intelligible survives of the remainder of the chamber, though the cell appears to be part of a Maes Howe-type chamber.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS(ISS) 14 October 1972.

(HY 4741 2780) Chambered Cairn (NR)

OS 1:10,000 1982.

Generally as described. Confirmed by A S Henshall as a probable Maes Howe type chamber.

Visited by OS(JLD) 18 May 1982.