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Birsay, Brough Road
Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Site (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Birsay, Brough Road
Classification Human Remains (Period Unassigned), Site (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 1806
Site Number HY22NW 18
NGR HY 2469 2803
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1806
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22NW 18 2469 2803.
Area of stones, possibly a corner of a structure, below turf and some sand and lying above natural clay, SE of a planticrue. Horizontal slabs and a drain may be associated with the latter. Exposed further by storms in 1978 and subsequent years. Human bone has been eroded out of this area.
C D Morris 1977d; 1979f; 1979h; 1979; 1989.
