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Wyre, Cubbie Roo's Castle
Building Platform (Period Unknown), Handle (Bone)
Site Name Wyre, Cubbie Roo's Castle
Classification Building Platform (Period Unknown), Handle (Bone)
Canmore ID 2639
Site Number HY42NW 24
NGR HY 441 263
NGR Description HY c. 441 263
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2639
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 24 c. 441 263.
A handle or haft of cetacean bone, 6 3/8" long and 1 1/16" max diameter, with a 3 1/2" deep hole at one end, found near Cubbie Roo's Castle was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) by James Flaws, Castlehill Wyre, in 1930
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1931 (Donations).
No local information.
Visited by OS(AA) 14 October 1972.
HY 44187 26303 A sub-rectangular building platform on the slope of the mound and just east of the castle. This is orientated north-south and measures 20m by 8m. This site relates to where a hen house once stood in the early 20th century, although this was thought to incorporate the remains of a much earlier structure.
Site identified as part of a desk-based assessment followed by a broad-scale landscape survey.
Antonia Thomas, 2006.
Note (1982)
'near Cubbie Row's Castle' area HY 44 26 HY42NW 24
A handle or haft of cetacean bone was found near Cubbie Row's Castle and given to NMAS in 1930.
RCAHMS 1982
(PSAS.56, 1930-1, 11; OR 804)
