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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 646633
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/646633
HY63NW 22 6171 3718.
A kitchen-midden at Howar (HY 61 37) yielded four pieces of steatite vessel which may be either Early Iron Age or Viking. They are in the Free Library Museum, Kirkwall (No. 28)
S Grieg 1940.
The farmer at North Howar indicated a turf-covered eminence, approximately 50.0m in diameter, at HY 6171 3718 where he believes a 'building' to be buried because of the amount of stone and shells turned up when ploughing but there are no surface traces. This is possibly where the potsherds were found.
Visited by OS (RL) 7 July 1970.
