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East House
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name East House
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Easthouse; Dounby
Canmore ID 1849
Site Number HY22SE 18
NGR HY 2895 2059
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1849
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Sandwick
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22SE 18 2895 2059.
(HY 2895 2058) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
A mound of burnt stones.
RCAHMS 1946.
An indistinct turf-covered mound of small burnt stones and earth, about 24.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, adjacent to a marshy area.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 May 1967.
Field Visit (21 May 1967)
An indistinct turf-covered mound of small burnt stones and earth, about 24.0m in diameter and 1.0m high, adjacent to a marshy area.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 May 1967
Orkney Smr Note
On the edge of marshy ground about 100 yards to the SW of the
farmhouse of East House, there is a very large tumulus of burnt
earth and small stones which has suffered greatly due to periodic
excavations which don't appear to have been systematically carried
out. A fragment of an old gairsty dyke lying in a NW'erly
direction, adjoins the mound at its E side, but there is no trace
in the adjoining cultivated land. The mound originally appears to
have been 60ft in diameter, but most of the original outline has
been broken up so that the exact size cannot be stated accurately.
It is about 8ft in height on the W side and slightly lower on the
E.
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
