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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 656121

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND47NE 8 4615 7835 and 4617 7837.

Stone foundations and traces of kitchen midden immediately N of the central pool to the W of the lighthouse on Muckle Skerry (information from A Black, lighthouse keeper).

RCAHMS 1946

Black is undoubtedly referring to two adjacent structures ('A' and 'B'), at ND 4615 7835 and ND 4617 7837 respectively.

'A', possible an Orkney-Cromarty stalled cairn, consists of a peat-covered stony mound about 15.0m NE-SW by 10.5m NW-SE and 0.8m high with several thin slabs on edge protruding through the top, the highest 0.7m.

'B', five metres to the NE and similar to 'A' but considerably eroded. There are so many fallen slabs within this cairn that it is difficult to tell which of the protruding stones are in situ.

No midden material visible in either cairn.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (ISS) 8 May 1973

Orkney-Cromarty stalled type chambered cairn.

J L Davidson and A Henshall 1989

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