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Standing Stones Hotel
Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Standing Stones Hotel
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Little Barnhouse
Canmore ID 2110
Site Number HY31SW 24
NGR HY 3025 1165
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2110
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Stenness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY31SW 24 3025 1165.
A mound, apparently artificial and under cultivation in August 1928, stands on the S. side of the road, opposite the Standing Stones Hotel. It measures 55 yds N-S by 46 yds E-W and from 11 to 15 ft in height, and appears to have been slightly cut into on the N. side when the road was made. No finds have been recorded: its size suggests that it may be chambered.
RCAHMS 1946.
This mound, probably natural, is situated at HY 3025 1165 in a level field, and is generally as described by the Commission. Recent ploughing has rendered its perimeter indefinite.
Visited by OS (NKB) 13 May 1966.
The results of a geophysical survey, carried out in August 2001 for Orkney Archaeological Trust, suggest that the mound is not natural.
NMRS, MS/1105/1
Scheduled as Little Barnhouse, mound.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 23 January 2002.
The mound feature was excavated in the early 1890s and reported in 'The Orkney Herald'. It describes the uncovering of a chamber, a chamber with a passage and two lateral chambers.
The Orkney Herald, 1891 and 1893
HY 3025 1165 Site identified as part of a desk-based assessment and walk-over survey.
Jacobs Babtie, 2005.
Magnetometry (July 2001 - August 2001)
HY 3025 1165 Magnetic survey in July and August 2001 confirmed this chambered mound (NMRS HY 31 SW 24) is artificial.
Report lodged with Orkney SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
N Card, A Challands, J Downes and J Gibson 2001
Resistivity (July 2001 - August 2001)
HY 3025 1165 Resistivity survey in July and August 2001 confirmed this chambered mound (NMRS HY 31 SW 24) is artificial.
Report lodged with Orkney SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
N Card, A Challands, J Downes and J Gibson 2001
Project (July 2001 - August 2001)
HY 3025 1165 Resistivity and magnetic survey in July and August 2001 confirmed this chambered mound (NMRS HY 31 SW 24) is artificial. The mound appears to have been truncated by road improvements in the 19th century. The survey indicated that it was surrounded by a ditch c 40m in diameter by c 2m wide. This may in part be revetted. Other linear features, parallel to this ditch, may represent secondary ditches or banks. Possible entrance arrangements were located on the NE and S sides of the mound. Both 'entrances' were associated with areas of high resistance which may be the remains of chambers.
Report lodged with Orkney SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Historic Scotland
N Card, A Challands, J Downes and J Gibson 2001
