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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TUMULI [Lyking] | Tumuli (Remains of) Tumuli (Remains of) Tumuli (Remains of) Tumuli (Remains of) |
Mr. David Robertson of Easter Voy Mr. James Robertson of Lyking Revd. [Reverend] Dr. [Doctor] Clouston, Sandwick New Stat. [Statistical] Account of Scotland |
100 | A group of 11 tumuli (remains of) to which the following extract from "New Statistical Account of Scotland" refers, "Barrows or tumuli are particularly numerous in Sandwick, I believe there are more than one hundred, though it would be neither easy nor useful to count them, Eight of these, situated on the Common, have been opened during during the last year, A minute description of each would be tedious; but a brief account of the most important, which I opened in company with most of the other office-bearers of the Orkney Natural History Society, must be interesting to the antiquarian, The first, (marked A on trace) which was largest of a numerous cluster between Voy and Lyking, was 50 yards in circumference, and about 7 1/2 feet high, It was formed of a wet adhesive clay, On reaching the centre, we found a large flag, which formed the cover; and on raising it up, the grave appeared as free from injury, and pieces of bone as white and clean as if formed only the preceding day, At its end, which lay north-east by east, was an urn, inverted flower-pot; & at its other end, about a hat-ful of bones immixed with ashes, which had been burnt and broken small, none being more than two inches long and one broad, covered by a stone of irregular shape, about one foot across, It was sprinkled with a peculiar mossy-looking substance, of a brown colour, white ashes, which seemed from the small, when burnt, to be animal matter, The surface (Cont. on the other side) |
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