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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 647049
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647049
HY75NE 1 7720 5504
(HY 772 5504) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
Stone Cist found AD 1865 (NAT)
OS 25" map, Orkney,(1900).
'A mound or tumulus where a stone coffin or cist was dug up in 1865' lies about 30 yds SE of Niven (HY 7717 5506).
(RCAHM apply the description of HY75SE 15 to this site).
Name Book 1879.
An amorphous sandy knoll of uncertain character.
Visited by OS (NKB) 20 July 1970.
(Formerly scheduled as Neven, mound). Descheduled.
Information from Historic Scotland, Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule, dated 20 December 1999.
