Rousay, Knitchen Hill
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Rousay, Knitchen Hill
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 2632
Site Number HY42NW 18
NGR HY 42961 28801
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 18 4295 2880.
(HY 42952880) Brough (NR)
OS 6"map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
On the top of "Knitchin" is a cairn of fairly large stones, rising to a height of 5ft.6in. Owing to slip it is difficult to determine the true diameter but it seems to having been about 50ft. It is erroneously marked "Brough" on the OS map.
RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1928.
A cairn c.12.5m in diameter and 2.0m high. The S side has been partly removed probably to build the modern cairn which occupies the summit.
Surveyed at 1/10,000
Visited by OS(ISS) 8 October 1972.
Field Visit (September 1980)
This cairn was visited in 1980, possibly by Raymond Lamb.
Diameter: 12.5m, height 2.0m. It was noted that part of the mound had been removed to construct a cairn.
Information compiled by the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1994
Field Visit (September 1980)
Knitchen Hill HY 4295 2880 HY42NW 18
Large cairn on the summit at a height of 235m OD.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 206, No. 569; OR 517)
