Rousay, 'knowe Of Gorn'
Burnt Mound (Bronze Age)
Site Name Rousay, 'knowe Of Gorn'
Classification Burnt Mound (Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 2297
Site Number HY33SE 3
NGR HY 3869 3341
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2297
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY33SE 3 3869 3341.
(HY 3873 3337) "Knowe of Gorn", a burnt mound, stands on the right bank of a small burn behind the ruins of an old house at Gorn, between Breckan and Innister. It measures 46ft by 49ft and it 5ft 3ins high on the N side. In a hollow, adjacent to the burn, two slabs can be seen, and it is said that there used to be a well nearby.
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1933.
"Knowe of Gorn" - a burnt mound at HY 3869 3341, generally as described by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 12 October 1972.
Field Visit (12 October 1972)
"Knowe of Gorn" - a burnt mound at HY 3869 3341, generally as described by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 12 October 1972.
Field Visit (October 1972)
Burnt mound 46ft x 49ft, 5ft 3in high, on N side. It is
said that there used to be a well quite close to it. In a
crater-like hillow, adjacent to stream, two slabs, possibly sides
of a box-like cavity, can be seen rising through the turf. [R1]
Burnt mound generally as described by RCAMS.
OS visit Oct 72.
Field Visit (September 1980)
As described [By OS].
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 80.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Knowe of Gorn HY 3869 3341 HY33SE 3
Large burnt mound beside stream.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 225, No. 586; OR 587)
Field Visit (7 May 2013)
This burnt mound stands on the SSE bank of a canalised stream in an area of formerly cultivated ground 55m NW of the ruins of Gorn farmsteading. It measures up to 15m in diameter by 1.6m in maximum height and burnt material is clearly visible in sheep scrapes and animal burrows on its N and S flanks. The crater-like hollow and edge-set slabs, described by RCAHMS in 1933 and presumably the remains of a tank, could not be identified on the date of visit. Similarly, the well, which may have been associated with Gorn farmstead and was also mentioned but not seen in 1933, was not identified.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 7 May 2013.
