Skaill, Loupandessness
Mould
Site Name Skaill, Loupandessness
Classification Mould
Canmore ID 1678
Site Number HY21NW 25
NGR HY 2357 1840
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Sandwick
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY21NW 25 2357 1840.
(HY 2357 1840) Loupandessness {NR} (Site of)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
The Celtic cross-mould in Skaill Museum came, not from Skara Brae (HY21NW 12.00 ), as was alleged by Dawkins (Prof B Dawkins 1914), but from a place called Loupandisness, near Skaill in Sandwick (See Dr Craven 1893- 1901).
H Marwick 1928.
The cross-mould was among the uncatalogued relics in the private museum of Skaill House where it was noted by Boyd Dawkins, a house guest, and W.Balfour Stewart, the tenant in 1913. There is no evidence to confirm MacGillvray's re-siting.
J G Childe 1931.
Loupandeerness or Hlaupandanes is not at Skaill, Sandwick, but Skaill in Deerness, recently excavated ( - ), revealing the remains of Norse long houses (Information from Mr E MacGillivray, Librarian, Kirkwall Library).
There are no traces on the ground of a building at the spot indicated on the OS 6", but a heavier stone content on a natural eminence suggests the site of a substantial structure.
There is no museum at Skaill: the Celtic cross- mould was not located.
Visited by OS (NKB) 20 June 1967.
