Howan Lickan
Mound (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Howan Lickan
Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Mull Head; Deerness
Canmore ID 2945
Site Number HY50NE 30
NGR HY 5930 0930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2945
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish St Andrews And Deerness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY50NE 30 5930 0930
On the clifftop some 500m S of Mull Head is a prominent but shapeless grassy mound about 5m in diameter. There is no indication of its content and the two or three protruding stones could be rock-outcrop.
K A Steedman 1980; RCAHMS 1987, visited August 1985
Orkney Smr Note (1985)
On a rise at the top of 20m high cliffs opposite the coastal
feature known as Howan Lickan is a small roughly circular mound
about 5m dia. The site is not especially noticable when in close
proximity but is prominent when viewed from some distance to the
the S. [R1]
Information from Orkney SMR
