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Mount Misery
Natural Feature (Period Unknown), Lithic Implement(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mount Misery
Classification Natural Feature (Period Unknown), Lithic Implement(S) (Stone)(Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Start Point
Canmore ID 1830
Site Number HY22NW 4
NGR HY 2458 2735
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1830
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22NW 4 2458 2735
(HY 2458 2735) Mount Misery (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
A large bent-covered sand-hill with no external evidence of artificiality. It was examined by John Fraser in 1931 who found that it was 'mainly clean sand with a few stones which showed no definite trace of a building ... A few crude stone implements were discovered ... There was no trace whatever of burnt bones or ashes (From an article by J Fraser in the Orkney Herald 16 September 1931).
RCAHMS 1946.
Mount Misery, as described, probably a natural sandy hillock.
Visited by OS (RL) 19 May 1967.
Descheduled (former no. 1354).
Information from Historic Scotland: Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 19 December 2002.
