Hoy, Selwick
Mound (Period Unknown)
Site Name Hoy, Selwick
Classification Mound (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 1559
Site Number HY20NW 16
NGR HY 2267 0536
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1559
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Hoy And Graemsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY20NW 16 2267 0536
No traces of any burnt material are evident on this grass-covered artificial mound. No information could be obtained locally.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 20 September 1964.
Field Visit (September 1964)
Selwick HY 2267 0536 HY20NW 16
Amid rough grass on a steep NE-facing hillside is an unclassifiable mound measuring 10m N-S by 7m and 1.3m high.
RCAHMS 1989, visited September 1964.
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 100, No. 383; OR 1909).
