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Sanday, Mires
Bank (Earthwork)(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Sanday, Mires
Classification Bank (Earthwork)(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 3448
Site Number HY63NW 40
NGR HY 62955 39570
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (September 1979)
A bank 1.2m high, 2m wide crosses the boggy valley bottom
from bluff to bluff. It looks like a mill dam but there is no
trace of a mill. Seaward of it are remnants of another bank,
this one curved in plan, which appears as if it may have been
meant to form another pool lower down.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 79.
Note (1980)
west of Mires, Sanday HY 6295 3957 HY63NW
A bank 1.2m high and 2m wide cross a flat valley bottom from bluff to bluff. Looks like a small dam, but no trace of a mill. Remnants of another similar bank a short distance seaward.
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 355)
Field Visit (1999)
A bank curves across the base of a shallow valley, some 40m from the coast edge. It has been denuded in placed by rabbit burrowing and the traffic of sheep. It is paralleled by a second similar bank, located further inland. The purpose of these banks remains enigmatic; it has been suggested that they have the appearance of a small dam, but no mill is to be found in this area. Ref.: RCAHMS (1980), #226.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999
