Hoy, Whaness Burn
Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Hoy, Whaness Burn
Classification Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Whaness Burn 'e'
Canmore ID 1584
Site Number HY20SW 17
NGR HY 2447 0179
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1584
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Hoy And Graemsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (May 1988)
Whaness Burn 'E' HY 2447 0179 HY20SW 17
On the steep hillside N of the conifer plantation and 100m W of HY20SW 15 is a mound, 8m in diameter and 0.3m high, its flat summit set with four earth-fast stones. Some 25m to the ESE is a short exposure of sub-peat dyke running approximately N-S.
RCAHMS 1989, visited May 1988.
(Plan, 1: 1,000, 1988, in NMRS; OR 2312).
