Holy Kirk

Holy Kirk (also called Hill Of Cruaday) is a Neolithic chamber grave remnant ( English Chambered cairn ) of unknown type on the Hill of Cruaday, near Quoyloo, in Sandwick on the Orkney island of Mainland in Scotland .

The name "Holy Kirk" refers to a group of stones, of which four with a height of 0.75 to 1.0 m protrude in the middle of a round stone mound about 0.6 m high and 14.0 m in diameter, one supports a fifth, which fulfills the analogy with an altar from which the name came. Nine more stones stick out of the lawn and a few more are lying around. A double row of short stones, eight in all, arranged on the edge possibly formed a corridor. Two large flat stones, both about 2.0 m long and 1.0 m wide, lie below the others and could have been part of a chamber.

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 , pp. 175-176.
• Anna Ritchie: Orkney and Shetland (= Exploring Scotland's Heritage. ). Published for Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland by HMSO, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-11-492458-9 .

Web links

• Entry on Holy Kirk  in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database

Coordinates: 59 ° 4 ′ 34 "  N , 3 ° 18 ′ 54.4"  W.