Bigland Round
Bigland Round is an Orkney Cromarty (OC) type cairn on the Orkney island of Rousay in Scotland . The Stalled Cairn in the rare round hill is on the edge of one of the low terraces on the southwest side of Faraclett Head. The megalithic complex was excavated by Walter Gordon Grant in 1938.
The Cairn of Bigland Round, apart from a flattening in the southeast, where access is almost round. The round shape is unusual for Stalled Cairns, which are typically long and rectangular ( Blackhammer , Midhowe Cairn , Unstan Cairn ). The somewhat oval diameter is about 11.7 by 12.6 m and is surrounded by a double wall. The outer one is still up to 75 cm high. The inner wall is 0.9–1.2 m closer to the center and also delimits the end of the short corridor. The corridor is 0.5 m wide and is flush with the brickwork inside and outside. The north-west-south-east facing, today roofless chamber is almost 5.0 m long and at 3.4 m unusually wide. It is divided between the two portal stones and the rear end by two pairs of plates on each side into three compartments ( English boxes ).
Outside the cairn, a small hollow was dug underground, 3.4 m from the entrance and near the south wall. It has a clay floor and was full of black peat ash. Numerous shards, a scraper, and two flint fragments found here are in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
Kierfea Hill is another equally round cairn not far from the Bigland Round megalithic complex.
literature
- James L. Davidson, Audrey S. Henshall: The chambered cairns of Orkney. An inventory of the structures and their contents. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1989, ISBN 0-85224-547-5 .
- Audrey Shore Henshall: The chambered tombs of Scotland. Volume 1. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1963.
Web links
- Entry on Bigland Round in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
Coordinates: 59 ° 10 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 2 ° 59 ′ 3.9 ″ W.