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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 646041

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/646041

HY62NE 8 6829 2523

See also HY62NE 9.

(HY 6828 2523) Cairn (NR)

(Site of) (NAT)

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

A mound of burnt stones

Name Book 1879.

A slight rise in a cultivated field showing burnt stones on its surface. RCAHMS could see 'no distinct indications of any construction here' and mistakenly apply the name 'God Odina' to this site. (See HY62NE 9)

Visited by OS(AA) 20 July 1970.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.

This site was under crop when visited. (The identification with 'God Odina' is erroneous).

RCAHMS 1984, visited July 1979.

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