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Feolquoy
Barrow(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Feolquoy
Classification Barrow(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 2056
Site Number HY31NW 7
NGR HY 3174 1551
NGR Description HY 3173 1553, HY 3175 1551 and HY 3175 1550
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY31NW 7 3173 1553, 3175 1551 and 3175 1550
See also HY31NW 8 and HY31NW 9.
(HY 3173 1553: HY 3175 1551: HY 3175 1550) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).
The mounds are artificial, composed of earth and stones. 'In some of these mounds (but see also HY31NW8 and 9) there have been found ashes and burnt bones'.
Name Book 1880.
These mounds, thickly covered by vegetation, are all about 3ft high and vary from 30 to 37ft in diameter.
RCAHMS 1946.
Three barrows, situated on a false crest at about 100ft OD,generally as described by the Commission, but now measuring in diameter from 8.0 to 10.0m. The smallest is cut on the N side by a peat road where, according to Mr Isbister (Mr M Isbister of Buckquoy, Harray), an urn containing ashes was discovered about 50 years ago by the late Mr Spence of Gorn. The urn was destroyed.
A fourth low mound, c.4.0m in diameter and 0.4m high, is contiguous to the N arc of the Largest barrow. It may be another barrow, or
merely spoil.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 8 June 1966.
Field Visit (8 June 1966)
Three barrows, situated on a false crest at about 100ft OD,generally as described by the Commission, but now measuring in diameter from 8.0 to 10.0m. The smallest is cut on the N side by a peat road where, according to Mr Isbister (Mr M Isbister of Buckquoy, Harray), an urn containing ashes was discovered about 50 years ago by the late Mr Spence of Gorn. The urn was destroyed.
A fourth low mound, c.4.0m in diameter and 0.4m high, is contiguous to the N arc of the Largest barrow. It may be another barrow, or
merely spoil.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 8 June 1966.
Field Visit (31 August 1993)
These mounds were visted during the course of the Orkney Barrows Project. Three mounds were recorded. The fourth, reported by the OS in 1966, could not be located but may be one of the previously recorded mounds in the vicinity (HY31NW 8 or HY 31NW 9).
The mounds in this group form a dispersed linear cemetery, with one outlier. The mounds are close to the newly-discovered stalled cairn and standing stone.
Feolquoy 1:Bowl-shaped. Measures 9.9m by 8.5m. Height 0.9m. Visible from the N and S for at least 500m.
Feolquoy 2: Bowl-shaped. Measures 7.7m by 8.8m. Height 0.85m. Visible from the N and S for at least 500m.
Feolquoy 3: Not recorded.
Feolquoy 4: Bowl-shaped. Measures 5.3m by 3.9m. Height 0.35m. Not as prominent as the other mounds due to smaller size.
Information from the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1993
