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Wyre, Testaquoy
Mound (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name Wyre, Testaquoy
Classification Mound (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Canmore ID 2650
Site Number HY42NW 34
NGR HY 4345 2556
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2650
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 34 4345 2556
See also HY42NW 36.
Situated at HY 4345 2556 is a greatly mutilated, turf-covered stony mound measuring about 16.0 m E-W by about 7.5 m and 0.8 m high. Near the centre are two or three random slabs on edge, and there are slight traces of walling at the edge of the mound in the NW end.
Classification uncertain. Mr Johnston of Testaquoy, Wyre, states that he has found pieces of flint and stone sinkers in the mound.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(ISS) 13 October 1972.
(Name: HY 4350 2556) Mound (NR) (detail omitted)
OS 1:10,000
HY 43448 25560 Rectilinear stony, nettle-covered mound, at the foot of the slope below the farm of Testaquoy. The mound is orientated east by west and measures approximately 20m by 10m. Site identified as part of a desk-based assessment followed by a broad-scale landscape survey.
Antonia Thomas, 2006.
Field Visit (August 1982)
below Testaquoy HY 4345 2556 HY42NW 34
A heavily-quarried nettle-grown stony mound some 16m long lies alongside the shoreline below Testaquoy. In the hollowed centre is an exposure of erect slabs which form no coherent pattern. The farmer has found in it flints, stone sinkers, and pottery, suggesting a settlement site. See also HY42NW 36.
RCAHMS 1982, visited August 1982
(OR 802)
