Hourston, Howaback
Barrow (Prehistoric), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hourston, Howaback
Classification Barrow (Prehistoric), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 1624
Site Number HY21NE 32
NGR HY 2934 1955
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1624
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Sandwick
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY21NE 32 2934 1955
(HY 2934 1954) Tumulus {NR}
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
See also HY21NE 34.
There is a mound, 40ft in diameter and up to 6t high, beside the garden wall at the farm of Howaback.
Although now covered with turf, the top and sloping sides show signs of excavation, said to have revealed a small square cist containing burnt and partly burnt bones.
RCAHMS 1946.
A grass-covered barrow of earth and small stones, which now measures c.10.5m in diameter by c.1.2m in height. No trace of the cist was found.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RL), 17 June 1966.
Field Visit (17 June 1966)
A grass-covered barrow of earth and small stones, which now measures c.10.5m in diameter by c.1.2m in height. No trace of the cist was found.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(RL) 17 June 1966.
Field Visit (31 August 1993)
This mound is bowl-shaped with well defined sides, it still stands some 1.3m high and will have to some extent been protected from the plough by being close to a building. It measures 9.0m in diameter. Some mound matrix is visible. It is prominent to all sides for c.500m and for 1km to N-NE. The mound has been excavated.
Information from the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1993
