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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645077
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645077
HY44NW 14 4221 4910.
(HY 422 491). An Orkney-Cromarty type round cairn, known as 'The Lum Head' at about 150' OD on the east edge of a shelf looking over the north part of the island and across to Papa Westray.
The mound is 5' high, turf-covered, with fairly steeply rising sides. The actual edge is indefinite but the cairn appears to have had a diameter of about 45' E-W and 55' N-S. None of the core is exposed, but the crest appears to have been removed,for in the centre is a hollow in which are exposed the tops of four upright stones which apparently represent the divisional slabs of a stalled chamber.
A S Henshall 1963.
At HY 4220 4910, a chambered cairn, still known as 'The Lum Head', and as described above. Only three upright stones remain, the eastermost on Henshall's plan having disappeared.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL) 26 June 1970.
The cairn remains generally as described above except that the E slab can just be seen protruding through the turf, measuring about 0.7m long and 0.4m thick. The cairn measures about 16.5m N-S by 14.0m E-W and is 1.3m high.
Visited by OS (JLD) 12 May 1983.
