Eday, Fersness
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Eday, Fersness
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 3221
Site Number HY53SW 6
NGR HY 5290 3375
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3221
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Eday
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY53SW 6 5290 3375.
At HY 5290 3375 is a heavily mutilated mound of burnt stones, which survives as two small mounds.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 26 July 1979.
On gently rising ground at Fersness, what was probably once a single large burnt mound now survives as two mutilated fragments.
Visited October 1981.
RCAHMS 1984.
Samples were collected from a series of burnt mounds on Eday in July 2000 as part of a broader investigation of luminescence dating of burnt mounds being conducted at the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride.
HY 5290 3375 Samples were collected from a series of burnt mounds on Eday in July 2000 as part of a broader investigation of luminescence dating of burnt mounds being conducted at the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride.
Stone samples were collected for luminescence dating from this badly damaged and eroding mound, now surviving as two separate mounds at the point of Fersness, 150m SW of the farm. A 30cm2 area of the smaller southern mound was deturfed and excavated to a depth of 30cm for sampling. Samples were also collected from a small section of visible stones on the easternmost side of the northern section of the mound.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, ESPRC
I Anthony, D Sanderson, R Housley, J Downes and J Robertson 2000
Field Visit (26 July 1979)
At HY 5290 3375 is a heavily mutilated mound of burnt stones, which survives as two small mounds.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(AA) 26 July 1979.
Thermoluminescence Dating (July 2000)
HY 5290 3375 Samples were collected from a series of burnt mounds on Eday in July 2000 as part of a broader investigation of luminescence dating of burnt mounds being conducted at the Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre, East Kilbride.
Stone samples were collected for luminescence dating from this badly damaged and eroding mound, now surviving as two separate mounds at the point of Fersness, 150m SW of the farm. A 30cm2 area of the smaller southern mound was deturfed and excavated to a depth of 30cm for sampling. Samples were also collected from a small section of visible stones on the easternmost side of the northern section of the mound.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, ESPRC
I Anthony, D Sanderson, R Housley, J Downes and J Robertson 2000
