Description

The monument comprises a large burnt mound known as the Knowe of Makerhouse and surrounding remains. The mound is already scheduled, but this proposal extends protection to the surrounding remains.

The monument includes a turf covered mound of small burnt stones and earth, up to 1.7m high, its main portion being at least 24m in diameter, and an area of irregular ground including in places patches of burnt stone, in the eastern part of which is a slightly raised area containing much unburnt stone.

The bottom and near-vertical side of the drainage ditch forming the western boundary of the field in which the monument lies, and the above ground parts of all existing fences and gates, are not included in this scheduling.

The area to be scheduled comprises the burnt mound and an area around it in which remains associated with its construction and use are likely to survive. The area measures 50m square (except for, on its SW side, a small triangular area consisting of part of the ditch and land to the SW of the ditch) with its NW side at the SE side of the fence and its SW side at the NE outer edge of a ditch, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance as a fine example of a Bronze Age settlement and its associated mound of potboilers.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Sources

Bibliography

The monument is recorded in the RCAHMS as HY 22 SE 6.

Ordnance Survey 6' map, Orkney, 2nd ed., (1903).

Source: Historic Environment Scotland