Kili Holm
Settlement (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Kili Holm
Classification Settlement (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 2700
Site Number HY43SE 4
NGR HY 4757 3259
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2700
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY43SE 4 4757 3259.
At HY 4757 3259, on Kili Holm, is a cairn, visible as a turf-covered stony mound 17.0m in diameter and 1.5m high, with a modern marker cairn erected over its centre. The cairn is undisturbed, though several slabs protrude through the turf at various angles forming no intelligible pattern. Its character and size suggest that it is probably chambered.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(ISS) 25 May 1973.
(A: HY 4757 3259; B: HY 4763 3265) Chambered Cairns (NR) (For 'B', see HY43SE 6.)
OS map, 1:10,000 1982.
Field Visit (May 1981)
Arrangement of slabs makes no sense as chambered tomb. The
slab-settings especially around the S edge are more suggestive of
a settlement complex, possibly rather later in date than the
other prehistoric house on the island.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) May 81, OR 778.
Field Visit (May 1981)
HY 4757 3259 HY43SE 4
Beneath the cairn at the centre of the islet, is a stony mound 17m in diameter and 1.5m high with several protruding edge-slabs. Although it has been interpreted as a chambered tomb, this is probably a prehistoric house.
RCAHMS 1982, visited May 1981
(OR 779)
