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Birsay, Brough Road

No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Birsay, Brough Road

Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 73728

Site Number HY22NW 57

NGR HY 2465 2808

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73728

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Oblique aerial view of Preston Tower, taken from the NNE.
Oblique aerial view of Preston Tower, taken from the NNE.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Orkney Islands
  • Parish Birsay And Harray
  • Former Region Orkney Islands Area
  • Former District Orkney
  • Former County Orkney

Archaeology Notes

HY22NW 57 2465 2808.

A column sample (LC 3) was taken in 1980 for molluscan analysis by L Cavanagh for a postgraduate dissertation at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, from a location NW of excavated Cutting 2 noted on HY22NW 16. Detailed reports on this and other samples in the area are given in Microfiche pp. I D1-E9.

D J Rackham, P J Spencer and L M Cavanagh 1989.

Activities

Molluscan Remains (1980)

A column sample (LC 3) was taken in 1980 for molluscan analysis by L Cavanagh for a postgraduate dissertation at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, from a location NW of excavated Cutting 2 noted on HY22NW 16.

D J Rackham, P J Spencer and L M Cavanagh 1989.

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