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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 784827
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/784827
HY20SW 8 2430 0043.
(HY 2430 0043) Dwarfie Stane (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed, (1900)
The Dwarfie Stane, unique in the British Isles, consists of an entrance-passage and two flanking cells cut in a huge flat block of sandstone. The squared stone which originally plugged the entrance now lies near by. A hole cut in the roof of the north cell and passage is probably to be associated with the removal of this 'plug'. Miss Henshall regards the Dwarfie Stane as being the ultimate devolution within the Bookan sub-group of Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairns, rather than evidence for direct contact with the Mediterranean, where similar tombs exist.
A S Henshall 1963; RCAHMS 1946
The Dwarfie Stane is as described and planned by Henshall.
Visited by OS (NKB), 15 June 1967
