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Papa Westray, Holland
Rubbing Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Papa Westray, Holland
Classification Rubbing Stone (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 2893
Site Number HY45SE 5
NGR HY 48980 51671
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2893
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Papa Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (June 1982)
Holland HY 4896 5166 HY45SE 5
The stone in the field immediately N of Holland was thought by the investigator for the Original Name Book not to be ancient, but his judgement was overridden, and it is shown as an antiquity on the old 6-inch maps. Enquiries in the 1920s by Marwick and Corrie confirmed the local opinion, which is still current, that it is a cattle rubbing-stone of comparatively recent origin. This judgement is reinforced by the stone's neatly-squared shape, not typical of prehistoric standing stones.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1982.
(Name Book, Orkney, No. 26, p. 70; Marwick 1925, 32; RCAHMS Notebook, Orkney, No. 2, 9 July 1928; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 184, No. 527; OR 827).
