Rousay, Cubbie Roo's Burden
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Rousay, Cubbie Roo's Burden
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 2638
Site Number HY42NW 23
NGR HY 43931 27992
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2638
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 23 4393 2800.
(HY 4392 2799) Cobbie Row's Burden (NAT)
Chambered Cairn (NR)
OS 1:10,000 1977.
Cobbie Row's Burden: An Orkney-Cromarty round cairn situated on a hillside (55 m OD). It is circular, some 52 ft in diameter and 4 ft high. Part of the interior has been removed and in the side of the resultant hollow, but in the centre of the cairn, the tops of five upright stones can be seen. They represent two pairs of divisional stones with a back-slab behind. The outer part of the chamber and the passage cannot be traced at present.
Visited by A S Henshall 1959.
A S Henshall 1963; RCAHMS 1946; Name Book 1880.
This chambered cairn is as described and planned by Miss Henshall.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 10 October 1972.
Field Visit (1941)
Visited by Childe in 1941.
V G Childe 1942
Orkney Smr Note (September 1980)
Fine circular mound 45ft diameter, height 3ft on N and 6ft
on S where ground falls away. Heather-grown, appears to made of
small stones and earth; in centre, where it has been dug into
down to natural surface, is single stone on edge, possibly
remains of chamber or cist. [R1]
As described by Henshall. OS visit Oct 72.
As described, in heather.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 80.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Cubbie Row's Burden (ORK 11) HY 4392 2798 HY42NW 23
Orkney-Cromarty round cairn, centre dug out revealing divisional slabs.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 213, No. 574; Henshall 1963, 194; OR 600)
