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Rousay, Wasbister, The Bleaching Knowe
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Rousay, Wasbister, The Bleaching Knowe
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Wasbister Loch
Canmore ID 2317
Site Number HY33SE 6
NGR HY 3957 3316
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2317
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY33SE 6 3957 3316
On the S shore of Wasbister Loch, immediately N of the school at Cogar, there is a much destroyed burnt mound which is locally called 'The Bleaching Knowe'. There are also traces of cist-like boxes formed of slabs set on edge in and close to the water.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1935.
'Bleaching Knowe', the scant remains of a brunt mound at HY 3957 3316, with traces of slab-built structures at the water's edge.
Site surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 12 October 1972.
(HY 3957 3316) Burnt mound (NR) (site of)
OS 25" map, Orkney, (1976).
Field Visit (12 October 1972)
'Bleaching Knowe', the scant remains of a brunt mound at HY 3957 3316, with traces of slab-built structures at the water's edge.
Site surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 12 October 1972.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Much-destroyed burnt mound. Burnt stones visible in eroded
section. Traces of cist-like boxes formed of slabs set on edge,
in and close to the water. [R1]
Now just a shapeless and very overgrown knoll which would
certainly escape notice as an antiquity. No exposed sections and
nothing visible in the water (level high at time of visit). It
is probable that recent dumping of large quantities of stones has
obscured the site.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 80.
Field Visit (September 1980)
Bleaching Knowe HY 3957 3316 HY33SE 6
On loch margin and obscured by recent dumping, a shapeless overgrown rise; there is no sign of structures that were once visible in the water.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1980
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 226, No. 587; OR 588)
