Rousay, Nearhouse
Knife (Period Unassigned), Leaf Arrowhead (Period Unassigned), Polished Axehead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rousay, Nearhouse
Classification Knife (Period Unassigned), Leaf Arrowhead (Period Unassigned), Polished Axehead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 2669
Site Number HY42NW 9
NGR HY 417 273
NGR Description HY c. 417 273
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2669
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 9 417 273.
In theNational Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) are the following finds from the farm of Nearhouse, Rousay, Orkney:- a polished quartsite axe, a brown flint knife and a leaf-shaped chert arrowhead. Presented by Mr Walter G Grant of Trumland. (Accession nos: AA 255; AB 2356-61, 2469-72, 2508; AD 2238; AF 870
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1943; 1944 (Donations).
Nearhouse not known on Rousay. Possibly Nears at HY 4179 2737 or Newhouse at HY 397 280; otherwise no further information.
Visited by OS(AA) 8 October 1972.
Note (1982)
'Nearhouse' unlocated HY42NW 9
Flint and stone artefacts in NMAS thus provenanced; the name does not exist, possibly Nears HY 4179 2737 or Newhouse HY 397 280.
RCAHMS 1982
(AA 255; AB 2356-61, 2469-82, 2508; AD 2238; AF 870. PSAS, 77, 1942-3, 195; PSAS, 78, 1943-4, 139; OR 596)
