South Ronaldsay, Halcro, Deadman's Hillock
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name South Ronaldsay, Halcro, Deadman's Hillock
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 9533
Site Number ND48NE 6
NGR ND 4594 8554
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9533
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish South Ronaldsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND48NE 6 4594 8554
On the sloping ground immediately N of Our Lady's Chapel (ND48NE 5) there was a mound, now entirely removed by cultivation. It was locally called 'Dead man's Hillock', suggesting the discovery of a cist or cists.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1929
Mr Brown pointed out the site of "Deadman's Hillock" on the ground at ND 4594 8554. He recalls his father telling him of the discovery of a cist in the late nineteenth century, when about a dozen cartloads of stones were removed. Several slabs were found, and used to build a culvert. Apparently a cairn of which nothing now survives.
Visited by OS (IMT) 26 April 1973.
