Birsay, Brough Road
Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned), Inhumation (Period Unassigned), Midden (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Birsay, Brough Road
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned), Cist (Period Unassigned), Inhumation (Period Unassigned), Midden (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 73553
Site Number HY22NW 62
NGR HY 2467 2805
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73553
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY22NW 62 2467 2805
See also HY22NW 61
To the E of HY22NW 61 was a cairn, excavated in 1978 and partly eroded by storms. The cairn overlay an extended skeleton aligned roughly NW-SE, with the head to the SE. Bone from this skeleton produced a radiocarbon date of 1705+/-80bp (GU-1554). The cairn was sealed by midden deposits in which was a disturbed Norse long cist grave aligned E-W (Area 1). Bone from this cist gave a radiocarbon date of 1240+/-85bp (GU-1553), while mammal bones from the lower midden area gave dates of 1250+/-55bp (GU-1956) and 1105+/-55bp (GU1957); and from sand over the midden, 1215+/-80bp (GU-1979). Small finds are in Tankerness House Museum, Kirkwall; biological material in RMS, Edinburgh.
C D Morris 1979h.
Excavation (1978)
To the E of HY22NW 61 was a cairn, excavated in 1978 and partly eroded by storms. The cairn overlay an extended skeleton aligned roughly NW-SE, with the head to the SE. Bone from this skeleton produced a radiocarbon date of 1705+/-80bp (GU-1554). The cairn was sealed by midden deposits in which was a disturbed Norse long cist grave aligned E-W (Area 1). Bone from this cist gave a radiocarbon date of 1240+/-85bp (GU-1553), while mammal bones from the lower midden area gave dates of 1250+/-55bp (GU-1956) and 1105+/-55bp (GU1957); and from sand over the midden, 1215+/-80bp (GU-1979). Small finds are in Tankerness House Museum, Kirkwall; biological material in RMS, Edinburgh.
C D Morris 1979h.
