Hundland
Barrow(S) (Prehistoric), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hundland
Classification Barrow(S) (Prehistoric), Cist (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 1771
Site Number HY22NE 18
NGR HY 2994 2675
NGR Description HY 2994 2675 and HY 2987 2674
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1771
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22NE 18 2994 2675 and 2987 2674.
(HY 2993 2673) Tumulus (NR) Stone Cist (NR)
O.S.6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
A large heather-covered earthen mound which was excavated from the top by Farrer a short time before 1880, who exposed a cist,containing
bones, ashes etc.
Name Book 1880.
The mound measures 42 ft in diameter and is nearly 6 ft high. The cist was still visible in 1880 but not, apparently, when visited by the Commission in 1929.
The doubtful site of another mound, which may have measured some 25 ft in diameter, lies about 50 yds to the WNW.
RCAHMS 1946.
A turf-covered barrow on a false crest, as described by the Commission. No cist is visible. The mound '50 yds to the WNW' is very ploughed-down and impossible to classify. It is located at HY 2987 2674.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(NKB) 30 May 1967.
'Barely discernible'.
OS Revision October 1985.
Field Visit (30 May 1967)
A turf-covered barrow on a false crest, as described by the Commission. No cist is visible. The mound '50 yds to the WNW' is very ploughed-down and impossible to classify. It is located at HY 2987 2674.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(NKB) 30 May 1967.
Field Visit (19 May 1993)
This mound has been levelled. It may have been visible to the loch edge some 500m to the SW.
Information from the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1993
