Kierfea Hill
Kierfea Hill is an Orkney Cromarty (OC) type cairn on the Orkney island of Rousay in Scotland .
The Stalled Cairn, excavated in 1940 in the rare round hill, is located on the south side of the 235 m high Kierfea Hill, not far from the similar megalithic complex Bigland Round . It is severely disturbed and reduced to a maximum residual height of 1.5 m. The hill is about 9.0 m in diameter and is partially surrounded by a double row of curbs. The axis of the corridor and the chamber is oriented southeast-northwest. The corridor is 2.4 m long and the chamber 3.6 m long. It is divided into three pairs of boxes by two pairs of transverse plates.
The chamber has been left open after the excavation, but its north side has collapsed.
The found parts of three buckled wall shells and one worked flint can be seen in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS).
To the southwest lies the heavily disturbed “Knowe of Craie”.
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 Kierfea Hill in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 59 ° 10 ′ 13.3 " N , 3 ° 0 ′ 30.2" W.