Archaeology Notes

Event ID 645303

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY32NE 21 3620 2665.

(HY 3620 2665) Robie's Knowe (NR)

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

A mound of burnt stones.

RCAHMS 1946.

Robie's Knowe, a turf-covered mound of smallish stones, 1.0 m. high, situated in a gently sloping pasture field. There are some stones apparently burnt, but in insufficient numbers to classify this positively as a burnt mound.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (NKB) 9 June 1967.