Dounby House
Barrow(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Dounby House
Classification Barrow(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 1854
Site Number HY22SE 22
NGR HY 2924 2082
NGR Description HY 2924 2082 and HY 2923 2082
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1854
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Sandwick
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22SE 22 2924 2082 and 2923 2082.
(HY 2924 2082) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
A low, apparently artificial mound, 30ft in diameter.
RCAHMS 1946.
A turf-covered circular barrow of earth with small stone admixture, 0.5m high and 9.0m in diameter, situated in a near-level pasture-field. Some 12.0m to the west, at HY 2923 2082, there is a similar well-shaped barrow, 11.0m in diameter and 0.5m high. No finds have been made in either.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 May 1967.
Field Visit (7 June 1929)
No. 695. Mound, near Dounby House.
In cultivated land immediately to the W of Dounby, about 150 yds from the road and some 200 yds E of the mound at East House (No. 694), is a low mound, 30ft in diameter, which is apparently artificial.
Visited by RCAHMS 7 June 1929.
OS Sheet xciv ("Tumulus").
Field Visit (18 May 1967)
A turf-covered circular barrow of earth with small stone admixture, 0.5m high and 9.0m in diameter, situated in a near-level pasture-field. Some 12.0m to the west, at HY 2923 2082, there is a similar well-shaped barrow, 11.0m in diameter and 0.5m high. No finds have been made in either.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 May 1967.
Field Visit (5 October 1993)
These two bowl-shaped mounds were visited during the course of the Orkney Barrows Project.
1: Measures 8.5m in diameter and 0.5m in height.
2: Measures 9.5m in diameter and 0.4m in height.
Both mounds are located on a slight rise, and are visible for c.500m in all directions.
Information from the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1993
Field Visit (8 May 2013)
These two barrows stand on a low rise in an arable field 85m S of Toomal. The larger (HY 29224 20814) is visible as a low oval spread measuring about 16m from N to S by about 14m transversely and standing to a maximum height of about 0.5m. The smaller (HY 29245 20812), which lies between it and a field wall to the E, measures about 8m in diameter and 0.2m in height.
The smaller barrow is depicted as a ‘tumulus’ on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney 1882, Sheet XCIV.12) and it was noted by RCAHMS in 1929 (1946, No. 695). The larger barrow was first identified by the Ordnance Survey in 1967.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 8 May 2013.
Orkney Smr Note
In cultivated land immediately to the W of Dounby, some 200
yds E of East House is a low mound 30 feet in diameter. It is
covered with light turf and short heather.
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
