North Ronaldsay, Finyar House Brae
Mound (Iron Age), Pin(S) (Bronze)(Late Iron Age)
Site Name North Ronaldsay, Finyar House Brae
Classification Mound (Iron Age), Pin(S) (Bronze)(Late Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Finyarhouse Brae
Canmore ID 3658
Site Number HY75SE 11
NGR HY 7610 5409
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/3658
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY75SE 11 7610 5409.
A mound at Finyar House Brae, North Ronaldsay, produced three bronze pins with ornamental heads which were purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1906. The location of the mound is not known.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1907 (Purchases); RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.
These pins were found at HY 7610 5409 when a road was cut through the N side of Finyar House Brae, an apparently natural rise.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 23 July 1970.
These pins are dateable to the post-Roman (ie late Iron Age) period, or even later. (Accession Nos: FC 180-82).
(Undated) information from Dr D Clarke (NMAS).
Orkney Smr Note (July 1979)
Mound, known only from report, but 3 bronze pins found in
it were acquired by National Museum of Antiquities in 1906. [R1]
Tulloch refers to a variety of Bronze Age ornaments and
cites site as an example of kitchen-midden. [R2]
These pins were found here, when road was cut through N side
of Finyar House Brae. This is apparently a natural rise.
OS visit Jul 70.
Pins are post-Roman or later.
OS index card, inf D V Clarke, RMS 1971.
No surface traces now apparent.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jul 79.
Note (1980)
Finyarhoose Brae, North Ronaldsay HY 7610 5409 HY75SE 11
A mound, destroyed in road-building, produced three bone pins, now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS FC 180-2).
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 220)