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Rousay, Knarston
Mound (Prehistoric) - (Medieval), Settlement (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Rousay, Knarston
Classification Mound (Prehistoric) - (Medieval), Settlement (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 2626
Site Number HY42NW 12
NGR HY 4463 2929
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2626
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 12 4464 2929.
(HY 4464 2927) Immediately adjoining chapel site HY42NW 11 is a grass-covered mound containing stones, which has been half wash away by the sea-possibly the site of a broch.
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1936.
Centred at HY 4464 2929 is an amorphous grass-covered rise covering the remains of an early structure of uncertain classification. Fragments of walling and slabs on edge are visible for about 20.0m along the shore line to the E where the structure is eroded.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(ISS) 7 October 1972.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Kirk House HY 4464 2928 HY42NW 11, 12
Very small burial-ground, disused during the present century, occupying S side of a broad platform; this rises on the N side to form a shapeless mound with occasional erect slabs. The mound seems too insubstantial to contain a broch, but is probably an early settlement site subsequently used for the chapel.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(Name Book., Orkney, No. 16, p. 208; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 227, No. 604; OR 512)
