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Latitude: 59.0866 / 59°5'11"N
Longitude: -3.2637 / 3°15'49"W
OS Eastings: 327678
OS Northings: 1022871
OS Grid: HY276228
Mapcode National: GBR L49Q.9N6
Mapcode Global: WH698.VW10
Entry Name: Summerfield,three mounds 470m WNW of,Greeny
Scheduled Date: 11 September 1939
Last Amended: 22 February 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1400
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric ritual and funerary: mound (ritual or funerary)
Location: Birsay and Harray
County: Orkney Islands
Electoral Ward: West Mainland
Traditional County: Orkney
The monument consists of three small prehistoric burial mounds, lying in a N-S line in marshy ground. The three mounds measure 5.5m, 8m and 7m in diameter respectively, from N to S, and 0.7m, 0.8m and 0.2m in height, respectively. The northernmost has been dug into, revealing a possible circular burial cist, 1.3m across. The area to be scheduled is rectangular, 60m N-S by 50m E-W, to include all 3 mounds and an area around them in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use may survive, as indicated in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a good group of small burial mounds, probably of Bronze Age date. Such mounds, in Orkney and elsewhere, have in the past provided valuable evidence regarding prehistoric burial practices and , from study of skeletal material, past diet and anatomy.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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The monument is recorded in the RCAHMS as HY 22 SE 16.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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