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Rousay, Mount Pleasant
Quarry(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Rousay, Mount Pleasant
Classification Quarry(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 2628
Site Number HY42NW 14
NGR HY 4022 2812
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2628
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 14 4022 2812.
About 100 yds N of Mount Pleasant on the inner side of a shelf on the hillside is an indeterminate structure formed by two retangular slabs with dry-stone masonry beneath. The slabs lie one upon the other in a NNE and SSW direction, with their W edges in alignment and are tilted diagonally downwards towards the SSE; the upper slab measures 6 ft 8 ins by 4 ft 11ins and the lower one 7 ft by 5 ft 9ins by 1ft 3 ins. Under the latter, set back from its W edge about 6 ins at the N end 12 ins at the S, is a face of walling 4 ft 9 ins long and 15 ins high from the S end of which a low upright slab projects forwards at right angles. Excavations carried out by the proprietor, W G Grant, produced fire-fractured stones and a quantity of "cramp" which lay about 2 ft in front of the structure.
RCAHMS 1946; J G Callander 1936.
Situated at HY 4022 2812 are two undressed blocks with drystone masonry underneath as described by the RCAHMS. Probably a result of quarrying of uncertain date, and not an antiquity.
Visited by OS(ISS) 9 October 1972.
Field Visit (September 1980)
on Sinclair's Hill HY 4022 2812 HY42NW 14
On a hillside shelf on Sinclair's Hill there are two large undressed stone blocks, one above the other, which are supported on smaller stones; not readily explicable.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 226, No. 597; OR 515)
