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Hoy, Leekhouse
Burial Ground (Prehistoric), Cist (Prehistoric)
Site Name Hoy, Leekhouse
Classification Burial Ground (Prehistoric), Cist (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Linksness
Canmore ID 1587
Site Number HY20SW 2
NGR HY 24318 03801
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1587
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Hoy And Graemsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY20SW 2 c. 243 038.
(HY c. 243 038) Leekhouse (NR)
Stone Cist and Human Remains found A.D.1876.
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
Leekhouse, now a piece of rough pasture, (the name means 'dead house' in the former language of the inhabitants) is said to have been an ancient burial ground.
A stone cist and human remains were ploughed up in the field in 1876.
Name Book 1880; RCAHMS 1946.
Mr Bremner, of Linksness, Hoy. states that while deep ploughing in his oatfield, centred at HY 243 038, which is covered with small stones, he has come across numerous shells and larger stones set on edge. The tradition that there was once a burial ground at 'Leekhouse' is well known locally.
Visited by OS (RD) 18 September 1963.
Field Visit (August 1987)
Leekhouse HY 2432 0379 HY20SW 2
Only an indefinable rise in cultivated ground marks a spot still locally known as an ancient burial ground and recorded in 1876 as find-spot of a cist and human remains.
RCAHMS 1989, visited August 1987.
(Name Book, Orkney, No. 10, p. 55; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 112, No. 389; OR 1916).
