Innertown
Cist (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Innertown
Classification Cist (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 1567
Site Number HY20NW 3
NGR HY 2331 0964
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1567
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Stromness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY20NW 3 2331 0964.
(HY 2331 0964) Stone Cist and Human Remains found A.D. 1877 (NAT)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
On the 24th April 1877 a cist 4 feet 1 inch long, 2 feet 5 inches wide and 2 feet 10 inches deep containing three crouched adult inhumations, was found 18 inches deep in a, probably natural,mound of sand, 170 yards s. of the farm of Wester Leafea.
W G T Watt 1878; RCAHMS 1946.
No further information could be obtained by local enquiry on this cist. The site is a natural sandy knoll in an arable field.
Visited by OS (RD) 20 September 1964.
'The Orkney Herald' describes the discovery of the cist with bones, found between Kinghouse and Wester Leafea.
