Sandyhall

Nearest town:
Kirkwall (11km SE)
OS reference:
HY399194
OS sheet:
6
Latitude:
59° 3' 27.24 N
Longitude:
3° 2' 52.67 W
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Image of Sandyhall (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by wideford

mound looking south from Sandyhall junction

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wideford May 12, 2015

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Sandyhall

wideford
wideford May 12, 2015

After Norseman Village take the Gorseness Road and at Grind turn onto the Hackland Road. On your left is a field with large wartime remains/ruins. In the next field a building perhaps of the same era marks Sandyhall barrow 3. There were others here but the only prominent one is near the farmroad junction. This mound of earth with a few stones is directly beside the Hackland Road and has several large scrapes.

Miscellaneous

Sandyhall
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
wideford
wideford May 12, 2015

There were originally five or six mounds in the field next to Sandyhall, NMRS record no. HY31NE 7, In 1966 three survived; 1/A at HY39861951 a squared off grassy mound about 15m across and rising to 1.8m max, B at HY39861945 a spread out mound roughly 10m D and 0.7m high (Sandyhill 1 0.15m in height in 1993), and C a significant rise some 12m D and 0.8m high at HY39891937 (Sandyhill 3 partly protected by a building and 0.3m high). “The Orcadian” of November 3rd 1863 describes a cist found in the centre of a Sandy Hall knowe by John Louttit. This cist was roughly 3½’ long, 20” wide and ~18” deep. Removing the rough flag coverstone revealed a burnt clay urn filled with burnt bone. This well-used urn had at some stage had to be clamped/stitched together and “broken long ago”. The cist was re-excavated in 1968, described then as an E/W aligned cist 0.91x~0.5x~ and ~0.4m deep, sitting on the natural.

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