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Latitude: 59.1809 / 59°10'51"N
Longitude: -2.7614 / 2°45'40"W
OS Eastings: 356586
OS Northings: 1032937
OS Grid: HY565329
Mapcode National: GBR M4JG.KQX
Mapcode Global: WH7B8.KH8P
Entry Name: Sandhill, burnt mound 200m SE of
Scheduled Date: 30 September 1936
Last Amended: 20 August 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1375
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: burnt mound
Location: Eday
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: North Isles
Traditional County: Orkney
The monument comprises a burnt mound - a prehistoric cooking place, which may conceal traces of prehistoric domestic buildings. It is probably of Bronze Age date.
The mound is in a low-lying area, near to fresh water: this is a typical location. The mound is extremely well-preserved, standing over 2m tall. It takes the form of a crescentic bank, about 25m long by 6m wide, which curves partly around an oval bank of lower height. This latter is probably no more than a detached part of the same mound. The whole monument, about 20m by 25m overall, appears to stand on a slight platform.
The area to be scheduled is a circle of diameter 55m, to enclose the burnt mound and subsidiary mound, the platform on which they stand and an area around them in which evidence relating to their accumulation and period of use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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