Isbister
Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Long Cist (Early Medieval), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Isbister
Classification Cist(S) (Period Unassigned), Long Cist (Early Medieval), Mound (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 1984
Site Number HY31NE 14
NGR HY 39 18
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/1984
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Evie And Rendall
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY31NE 14 39 18.
Three cists were discovered in a group, in 1858, 'close to the house of the tenant of the farm and mill of Isbister. There was no barrow visible, and the ground had been disturbed all around, but Petrie thought he could still trace 'the outline of a barrow of large size around the largest cist'.
This cist, 5 ft 8 ins long, contained a skeleton at each end, the one deliberately crouched, the other possibly dismembered before burial. The second cist, 3 ft long, contained the remains of a partially burnt skeleton, and the third, about 18 ins square, contained a heap of fragments of burnt bones.
G Petrie 1868.
No further information.
Visited by OS(RL) 6 June 1966.
