The Kiln, Muckle Skerry
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Site Name The Kiln, Muckle Skerry
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Pentland Skerries; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 9507
Site Number ND47NE 3
NGR ND 4638 7844
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9507
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish South Ronaldsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND47NE 3 4638 7844.
About one-third of a small Early Iron Age vessel was found by the keeper of the Pentland Skerries lighthouse in a mound about 100 yards NW of the lighthouse on Muckle Skerry. It is now in Stromness Museum.
I H Longworth 1965
There is no record of this find at Stromness, but a turf-covered stony mound at ND 4638 7844 measuring 13.0m E-W by 11.0m N-S and 1.0m high is probably the mound referred to by Longworth. It has been quarried into from the west side exposing the top of a slab 1.1m. long set on edge. Traces of a wall about 0.8m wide can also be seen extending from the S side. The origin of the mound is uncertain, yet it cannot be positively identified as a cairn.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (ISS) 8 May 1973
This is a possible burnt mound. The centre was excavated revealing slab structure. This was probably the find spot of a pot. Further slab structures are around mound. OR 498
Information from R Lamb.
Field Visit (8 May 1973)
There is no record of this find at Stromness, but a turf-covered stony mound at ND 4638 7844 measuring 13.0m E-W by 11.0m N-S and 1.0m high is probably the mound referred to by Longworth. It has been quarried into from the west side exposing the top of a slab 1.1m. long set on edge. Traces of a wall about 0.8m wide can also be seen extending from the S side. The origin of the mound is uncertain, yet it cannot be positively identified as a cairn.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (ISS) 8 May 1973
