Westray, Fitty Hill
Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Site Name Westray, Fitty Hill
Classification Chambered Cairn (Neolithic)
Canmore ID 2846
Site Number HY44SW 8
NGR HY 4332 4451
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY44SW 8 4332 4451.
At HY 4332 4452, on a false crest, is a mutilated turf-covered chambered cairn measuring c.16.9m in diameter and c.1.0m in height. Seven earth-fast slabs protrude through the turf on the E side of t he flat top. Five of them are apparently part of an Orkney- Cromarty stalled chamber. A large slab 0.9m high in the SE arc of the cairn was until recently, part of a container for sheep fodder and may not be an original feature.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (RL) 30 June 1970.
Cairn generally as described. Possible tripartite or stalled chamber. (Confirmed by A S Henshall)
Visited by OS (JLD) 10 May 1983.
Field Visit (June 1981)
This land, until recently unenclosed rough, had been
argiculturally improved, but without apparent detriment to this
monument.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 81.
Field Visit (June 1981)
Fitty Hill HY 4332 4451 HY44SW 8
In 1970, on a prominent shoulder, on what until recently was unenclosed rough grazing, the OS discovered a probable Orkney-Cromarty stalled tomb represented by a mutilated mound, 16m in diameter and about 1 m high, with seven protruding slabs, not all of which, however, are necessarily ancient.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981
(OR 893).
Orkney Smr Note (June 1996)
Owner reported collapsed top stone into hole. Visited by JG on 11 June 1996. Cist possibly secondary feature on E side of mound. No apparent contents except collapse, but this was all left untouched. Copy of sketch sheet in detailed records.
Information from Orkney SMR (JG) June 1996.
