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Robie's Knowe
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Robie's Knowe
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 2172
Site Number HY32NE 21
NGR HY 3620 2665
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2172
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Evie And Rendall
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY32NE 21 3620 2665.
(HY 3620 2665) Robie's Knowe (NR)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
A mound of burnt stones.
RCAHMS 1946.
Robie's Knowe, a turf-covered mound of smallish stones, 1.0 m. high, situated in a gently sloping pasture field. There are some stones apparently burnt, but in insufficient numbers to classify this positively as a burnt mound.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 9 June 1967.
Field Visit (9 June 1967)
Robie's Knowe, a turf-covered mound of smallish stones, 1.0 m. high, situated in a gently sloping pasture field. There are some stones apparently burnt, but in insufficient numbers to classify this positively as a burnt mound.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (NKB) 9 June 1967.
Orkney Smr Note
A small Knowe 20 chains NE of Woo, covered with rough grass.
[R1]
On the N side of the burn of Woo, not far from the Knowe of
Stenso is a grassy mound known as Robie's Knowe, that most likely
had been a place of sepulture and there is a tradition that an
important person named Robbie was buried there. Another story is
that it was the frequent haunt of a half witted old man called
Robbie. [R2]
Robbie's Knowe, burn of Woo, between the shore and farm of
Woo. Listed under burnt mounds. [R3]
Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]
