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Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Setter
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 2002
Site Number HY31NW 12
NGR HY 3434 1560
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2002
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Firth
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY31NW 12 3434 1560.
(HY 3433 1560) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
The mound, composed of earth and stones, had been partly demolished by 1880 and was published as the eastern half of a flat-topped mound, c.20.0m in diameter.
Name Book 1880; O.S.25" map, Orkney, 1st ed., (1880).
A shapeless and much-mutilated mound of earth and small burnt stnes, 1.3m high, situated in an area of pasture close by a stream at about 150ft OD. It is similar to the burnt mound at HY 3033 1640 (HY31NW 26) and may itself be one, although it lies in a topographic position similar to the proven cairns 300m to the NE (HY31NW 13).
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 31 May 1966.
Field Visit (31 May 1966)
A shapeless and much-mutilated mound of earth and small burnt stnes, 1.3m high, situated in an area of pasture close by a stream at about 150ft OD. It is similar to the burnt mound at HY 3033 1640 (HY31NW 26) and may itself be one, although it lies in a topographic position similar to the proven cairns 300m to the NE (HY31NW 13).
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 31 May 1966.
