Archaeology Notes

Event ID 646408

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY74SW 3 7096 4315

(HY 7094 4315) Tumulus (NR)

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

A mound of burnt stones which is locally known as 'The Butter Knowe'

RCAHMS 1946.

A burnt mound, still known as "Butter Knowe", measuring c14.0m in diameter, and 0.8m high.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500

Visited by OS (NKB), 12 July 1970.