Smoogarth
Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Smoogarth
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 1992
Site Number HY31NE 3
NGR HY 3618 1533
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Firth
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY31NE 3 3618 1533.
There is a mound, some 30 ft in diameter and 5 ft high, on the east shoulder of Cuiffie Hill. On the top, which has been dug into, is a large, irregularly-shaped slab 3 ft 4 ins by 2 ft 9 ins by 8 or 9 ins, which has apparently been removed from the centre of the mound, and may be the remains of a cist.
RCAHMS 1946.
There is a circular turf-covered mound, with a large slab on top, as described by the RCAHMS, at HY 3618 1533, on a false crest in an area of heathland.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(RL) 27 May 1966.
Field Visit (July 1980)
Land is recently improved to good pasture; no trace of mound, presumably destroyed.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jul 80.
Field Visit (8 September 1993)
This bowl-shaped mound was recorded as destroyed but it is still in evidence. The mound is highly visible from the road but disappears from view part way up the hill to it. It measures 10.6m by 11.5m and is 1.65m in height.
There is another small mound c.50m to the N but this is eroded and other humps around it suggest that it is natural.
Information from the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1993
