Howan Blo stone boxes
The stone boxes of Howan Blo are in a hill near the road B9050 in the center of the peninsula Deerness on the Orkney island of Mainland in Scotland .
In 1929 a plow lifted the top of a short stone box while digging for clay . It contained an approximately 20 cm high urn made of steatite and shards of a small urn. The box was in a round depression in the middle of the hill. It measures about 0.5 × 0.4 m with about 45 cm high and 3.7 cm thick side plates made of bluish sandstone .
In 1932 a second stone box was found just a few meters away. It contained a Bronze Age urn and fragments of a smaller one. The large urn contained burned corpses and pottery shards. The archaeologists found an urn-shaped cavity under a capstone about two feet away, which never contained an urn. It was almost completely filled with dark, greasy bones. This may have been the place where Petrie found several boxes near an old settlement in 1869.
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Coordinates: 58 ° 56 '20.7 " N , 2 ° 44' 49.6" W.