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Field Visit
Date 1999
Event ID 879537
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/879537
Twenty-six or more cairns have been recorded in the field which lies at the southern tip of Els Ness. These are scattered widely over the area and are visible as small grassy rises, mostly under 12m in diameter and 0.5m in height. Recent survey work in this area found only eighteen mounds; the remainder are likely to have been reduced or removed through cultivation and animal poaching. The NSA records that cists were once visible in some of the mounds and several contained cramp and stone objects. Ref.: NSA (1845), Vol.15, 137; RCAHMS (1946) #452; RCAHMS (1980) #8; Downes, J (1998) 'Elsness, Sanday (Lady Parish)- survey of burial mounds' in DES 1998.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999
