Rousay, Innister, Knowe Of Hammar
Burnt Mound (Bronze Age)
Site Name Rousay, Innister, Knowe Of Hammar
Classification Burnt Mound (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Knowe Of Hamar
Canmore ID 2320
Site Number HY33SE 9
NGR HY 38949 33512
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2320
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY33SE 9 3894 3351.
(HY 3894 3351) Tumulus (NR).
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
'Knowe of Hammar' - a burnt mound a quarter of a mile SE of the farm of Innister.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
'Knowe of Hamar', a crescentic burnt mound, measuring 14.0m NE-SW by 13.0m and 1.5m maximum height, and open to the NW.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 12 October 1972.
Scheduled as Know of Hamar, burnt mound, Innister.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 February 2002.
Field Visit (12 October 1972)
'Knowe of Hamar', a crescentic burnt mound, measuring 14.0m NE-SW by 13.0m and 1.5m maximum height, and open to the NW.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 12 October 1972.
Desk Based Assessment (1972)
(HY 3894 3351) Tumulus (NR).
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1900).
'Knowe of Hammar' - a burnt mound a quarter of a mile SE of the farm of Innister.
Information from OS c1972.
Source: RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Knowe of Hamar HY 3894 3351 HY33SE 9
Crescentic mound.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 226, No. 588; OR 590)
Field Visit (7 May 2013)
This burnt mound stands on the SSE bank of a canalised stream in an area of formerly cultivated ground 40m NE of the ruins of Hamar farmsteading. Oval in plan, it measures 15.5m from NE to SW by 14m transversely and about 1.5m in height, and burnt material is visible in animal burrows. A depression in the N flank contains on its W side what appears to be an in situ edge-set slab. The area between the mound and the burn has been disturbed in comparatively recent times.
A tumulus is depicted here on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney 1882, Sheet LXXXIV.12; Name Book No.16, p.13).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 7 May 2013.
