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Field Visit
Date 10 May 2013
Event ID 963742
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963742
A scatter of up to six grass-grown barrows are visible in two pasture fields about 170m NNW of the ruins of Appiehouse farmstead.
At the NW end of the group there are two barrows close together, the larger (1 - HY 37479 08796) measuring about 7m in diameter and 0.4m in height. Immediately to its E is the second (2) which measures 5m in diameter and 0.4m in height. The very faint traces of the third barrow (3 – HY 37487 08761), measuring about 10m in diameter and only 0.1m in height, are visible some 26m to the ESE, and a further 20m to the S there is a fourth (4 - HY 37491 08732). It measures 10m in diameter and 0.1m in height, with a marked depression in its centre. The fifth barrow (5 - HY 37551 08681), which is the best preserved, stands about 130m SE of (1). Roughly oval on plan, it measures 8.7m from N to S by 8.3m transversely and stands 0.5m in height. Just 2m to the NE, a swelling measuring 8m in diameter and 0.1m in height may be the remains another (6).
Six tumuli are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney 1882, Sheet CVII.8; Name Book No.14, p.17), and it is likely that the four cists discovered in 1928-29 (Marwick 1929; RCAHMS 1946, No. 491) formed part of this group, previously recorded to the north (see HY30NE 14). Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 are depicted on current OS mapping; two additional barrows depicted together on current OS mapping (centre HY 37507 08661) were not visible on the date of visit.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 10 May 2013.
