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Westray, Fitty Hill
Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Westray, Fitty Hill
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 2832
Site Number HY44SW 14
NGR HY 42977 44872
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY4SW 14 4297 4486.
A turf-covered mound of stones, about 8.5m in diameter and 1.0m high, with a flat top, 3.5m in diameter surmounted by an OS triangulation pillar. Probably a marker cairn.
Visited by OS 30 June 1970.
Field Visit (June 1981)
Fitty Hill HY 4297 4486 HY44SW
The triangulation station on the summit of the highest hill in Westray (169m OD) occupies a flat-topped stony mound 8.5m in diameter and over 1.5m high. The name (viti) indicates the existence of a beacon-stance. The OS suggest that it is a recent marker cairn, but the size of the mound, and the crowning of the neighbouring summits of Gallo Hill (NY44NW 15) and Knucker Hill (HY44NW 16) by prehistoric burial-mounds, suggest that this also may be one.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981
(OR 866).
Field Visit (14 April 1994)
This bowl-shaped mound was visited as part of the Orkney Barrows Project.
Measuring 8.5m in diameter and 1.5m in height, it is in a very prominent location, viisble for 2km to the N and 5km to the E.
Information from the Orkney Barrows Project (JD), 1994
