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South Ronaldsay, Big Howe, Newbigging Farm
Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Cremation (Bronze Age), Inhumation (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Pottery)(Bronze Age)
Site Name South Ronaldsay, Big Howe, Newbigging Farm
Classification Cist(S) (Bronze Age), Cremation (Bronze Age), Inhumation (Bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (Pottery)(Bronze Age)
Canmore ID 9631
Site Number ND49SW 5
NGR ND 4300 9082
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9631
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish South Ronaldsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND49SW 5 4300 9082.
Several cists, one of which contained human remains, are believed to have been discovered a number of years ago at the mounds known as Big Howe (ND 4299 9087) and Little Howe (ND 4312 9081).
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1929
About 1925 Mr Cogle (Upper Newbiggin, Widewall) uncovered a cist containing a crouched burial at ND 4300 9082 on the apparently natural rise known as "Big Howe". The area has been heavily quarried over the years, and about 1945 a cinerary urn, containing burnt bones, was unearthed in the area of the cist find. Later the broken urn was presented to Kirkwall Museum (through a Mr Robert Rendall) but there is no record of it there now.
The area known as "Little Howe" has also been quarried and according to Cogle although no cists, definite structure were found, several slabs, of a sort not found locally, were taken from it and are used in a cow byre at nearby Mire Farm.
Site surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (ISS) 30 April 1973
Note (2020)
Newbigging Farm
This burial site in Orkney Islands was a focus for funerary practices in the Bronze Age period, between 2450 BC and 801 BC.
Prehistoric Grave Goods project site ID: 60169
CANMORE ID: 9631
Total no. graves with grave goods: 1
Total no. people with grave goods: 1
Total no. grave goods: 1
Prehistoric Grave Goods project Grave ID: 60060
Grave type: Cist
Burial type(s): Cremation
Grave good: Pot (Unknown/Unspecified)
Materials used: Pottery
Current museum location: Unknown
Further details, the full project database and downloads of project publications can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5284/1052206
An accessible visualisation of the database can be found here: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/grave-goods/map/
