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Sanday, Stove
Field Boundary(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Mound(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Sanday, Stove
Classification Field Boundary(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Mound(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 3454
Site Number HY63NW 5
NGR HY 608 355
NGR Description Discovery area centred at HY c. 608 355
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3454
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY63NW 5 centred 608 355.
The remains of what may be a small denuded cairn lie about 200 yds south of the crofter's cottage on the west side of the Bay of Stove and a little SW of Stove farm-house (HY 608 355).
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
No trace. In the area centred HY 606 350, there are several amorphous mounds and traces of former cultivation.
Visited by OS (RL) 10 July 1970.
Note (1980)
Spurness, Sanday HY c. 606 350 HY63NW 5
A 'small denuded cairn or mound', reported in vague terms somewhere here by RCAHMS may be one of several such effects produced at the intersections of ancient field boundaries, which are widespread on Spurness.
RCAHMS 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 41, No. 164; OR 363)
