Field Visit

Date 7 May 2013

Event ID 963582

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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RCAHMS Special Survey, Orkney

This barrow stands on the SE, leading, edge of a plateau on the Brae of Moan, some 220m NE of the ruined farmstead of Moan. Roughly oval on plan, it measures 12m from E to W by 10.5m transversely and 0.8m in height. A depression in the centre, which measures about 5m in diameter, may be the result of an investigation in antiquity or robbing to provide material for an adjacent modern cairn which measures 2m in diameter and stands 1m high. Animal burrows have revealed a core comprising earth and very few stones.

A tumulus is depicted here on the 1st edition of the OS 25 inch map (Orkney 1882, Sheet LXXXIV.12; Name Book No.16, p.13).

Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 7 May 2013.