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Rousay, Mid Howe
Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)
Site Name Rousay, Mid Howe
Classification Lithic Implement(S) (Flint)
Canmore ID 2290
Site Number HY33SE 23
NGR HY 3731 3067
NGR Description Centred 3731 3067
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2290
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY33SE 23 3731 3067 (centre).
Area centred HY 3731 3067. Four flint scrapers and two flint tools from the field above Midhowe Broch (HY33SE2) were donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1935 by Walter G Grant.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1935.
A leaf-shaped arrowhead and five flint scrapers were donated to the NMAS by Walter G Grant in 1936 from the same location as above.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1936.
No further information.
Visited by OS(AA) 11 October 1972.
Note (1982)
Outer Westness area HY 37 30 HY33SE 23
Two donations to NMAS of flint objects found in the field above Midhowe (HY33SE 2); NMAS AB 2272, 2279-83, 2434-9; AD 1794.
RCAHMS 1982
(PSAS, 69,1934-5, 438, PSAS, 70, 1935-6, 359; OR 609.
