OS1/23/15/14

  1. Records
  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Orkney OS Name Books, 1879-1880
  4. Orkney, Volume 15
  5. OS1/23/15/14
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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
Site of TUMULUS [Blubersdale] Site of Tumulus Mr John Skea Blubersdale 095 This name applies to where two or three cists were found by Mr John Skea in 1856 when improving the land.
STONE CISTS FOUND A.D. 1856 [tumulus, Blubersdale] Stone Cists found A D 1856 095 They contained bones and ashes the former moulding into dust shortly after the air got to the Cists. situated 2 chains west of Blubersdale dwelling house.

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MoragSinclair

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Evie And Rendall Parish, Orkney County

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Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Orkney, Sheet Xcv Ordnance Survey Six-inch To The Mile, Orkney, Sheet Xcv