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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645440
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645440
HY43SW 18 4242 3196.
(HY 422 317 ) An Orkney-Cromarty round cairn placed high on the S face of Kierfea Hill, on sloping moorland. It is turf-covered and greatly ruined, reduced to a max height of five feet. It measures about 27 ft in diameter and has a double wall face surrounding it. The outer face is only partly exposed, on the N side of the entrance and for a quarter of its circumference on the S side. The inner wall face was seen on either side of the passage. The main axis of the passage and chamber lies S of E and N of W with the entrance in the former direction. The passage is
8 ft long and the chamber 12 ft long, is divided into three compartments by two pairs of transverse slabs.
The chamber has been left open after the excavation, but the N wall has collapsed.
Parts of three carinated bowls, sherds and a worked flint chip from this site are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
A S Henshall 1963.
A chambered cairn at HY 4242 3196 as described and planned by Henshall. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(ISS) 18 October 1972.
