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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 655612
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/655612
ND48SE 4 4612 8326
Orkney SMR Reference: OR 1145, OR 2866
ND 4612 8326 - A group of six cairns visible as low turf-covered stony mounds. The largest has a diameter of 14.5m and height of 1.1m but the majority average 8.6m by 0.6m high. Mr R Simison (of Liddell Farm) has dug into two of the mounds exposing kerbs of coursed dry-stone walling around both and indications of a causeway connecting one of them to an adjacent mound. No other features were uncovered and no artifacts were found.
To the west of the group are three or four small grassy mounds which may or may not be artificial.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (IMT), 26 April 1973.
ND 460 832 Six prehistoric burial mounds, disturbed.
ND 462 833 Mound, ?prehistoric
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, Orkney Archaeological Trust.
G Wilson and H Moore 1997.
