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Silsbury pill Geophysics has revealed that thiis is not a chambered cairn but more like Silbury Hill, as with a site at Dunragit in Dumfries and Galloway, the BA cist and animal bones from ?feasting towards the top being later additions http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/saltknowe.htm |
Posted by wideford17th April 2008ce |
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Visited 4.6.12 This Barrow is huge – approximately 30 metres across x 3 metres high. An information board stated that it has never been excavated and it is thought that there may be a passage grave inside. The barrow is comparable in size to Maeshowe. I see Wideford states it has been surveyed so the info board is out of date. You get a good view of the Ring of Brodgar from the top of the Barrow. I couldn’t see ant trace of the cist – perhaps it has grown over? |
Posted by CARL 10th July 2012ce |
| It's in a terrible state, what were rabbit scrapes is now an extensive burrow system - it would be better excavated before it becomes a complete unstratifiable mess |
Posted by wideford 14th August 2009ce Edited 14th August 2009ce |
| Behind the Ring of Brodgar in the RH corner of the field there is a cist-like structure at the top of this mound, though all I could locate on my visit was the turf-covered edge of a long horizontal slab at the side facing the loch. During an excavation nine pieces of silver 'ring-money' were found. |
Posted by wideford 24th April 2004ce |
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| BA burial mound or chambered tomb |
Posted by wideford 30th March 2005ce |
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