Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Sanday
Sanday, Orkney Northern Islands is in Orkney Northern Islands.
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Sanday, Lopness
In 1722 John Elphinstone was born at Lopness, Sanday.
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Sanday, Pool
Carbon Date. 2460BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal:-
ID: 6371, C14 ID: OxA-946 Date BP: 4460 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4390, End BP: 4530
Abstract: Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland
Archaeologist Name: Hunter
Reference Name: Archaeometry 29(1), 1987, 125-155
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2450BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal:-
ID: 6376, C14 ID: OxA-960 Date BP: 4450 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4380, End BP: 4520
Abstract: Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland
Archaeologist Name: Hunter
Reference Name: Archaeometry 29(1), 1987, 125-155
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2360BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal:-
ID: 6372, C14 ID: OxA-947 Date BP: 4360 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 4280, End BP: 4440
Abstract: Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland
Archaeologist Name: Hunter
Reference Name: Archaeometry 29(1), 1987, 125-155
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2300BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: charcoal:several
ID: 6375, C14 ID: OxA-959 Date BP: 4300 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 4230, End BP: 4370
Abstract: Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland
Archaeologist Name: Hunter
Reference Name: Archaeometry 29(1), 1987, 125-155
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 730. Early Medieval
Report: Seeds, id as flax (Linum usitatissimum), from Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 1589, C14 ID: GU-1810 Date BP: 1270 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 1220, End BP: 1320
Abstract: Multi-period settlement
Archaeologist Name: J R Hunter
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scotl, 117, 1987, 175-81
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 840. Early Medieval
Report: Seeds, id as flax (Linum usitatissimum), from Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 1590, C14 ID: GU-2006 Date BP: 1160 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 1110, End BP: 1210
Abstract: Multi-period settlement
Archaeologist Name: J R Hunter
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scotl, 117, 1987, 175-81
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 1025. Late Medieval
Report: Seeds, id as flax (Linum usitatissimum), from Pool, Sanday, Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 1588, C14 ID: GU-1806 Date BP: 975 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 925, End BP: 1025
Abstract: Multi-period settlement
Archaeologist Name: J R Hunter
Reference Name: Proc Soc Antiq Scotl, 117, 1987, 175-81
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Sanday, Quoyness
Europe, British Isles, Scotland, Orkney Islands, Orkney Northern Islands, Sanday, Quoyness Chambered Cairn [Map]
Quoyness Chambered Cairn is also in Maeshowe Type Chambered Cairn.
Quoyness Chambered Cairn [Map]:
(HY 6766 3779) Quoyness Brough (NR)
A Maes-Howe-type chambered cairn, measuring 67' by 56', the intact chamber being enclosed within a complex cairn and surrounded by a platform. It was excavated by Farrer and Petrie in 1867, in the belief that it was a broch, but was subsequently recognised as a chambered cairn and re-excavated by Childe in 1951-2 for the MoW in whose guardianship it has been placed.
The roughly rectangular chamber, with six cells, is enclosed within an ovoid cairn, supported by two retaining walls, the whole being covered with cairn material supported by a third wall, standing on a raised platform.
Sherds of Neolithic pottery found on the floor show affinity with the Rinyo (HY43SW 20) and Skara Brae (HY21NW 12) settlements
Carbon Date. 2265BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as femur, Sample C from Quoyness, Sanday [Map], Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 4441, C14 ID: SRR-753 Date BP: 4265 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 4215, End BP: 4315
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 677, OS North: 378
Archaeologist Name: Childe
Reference Name: Antiquity, 50, 1976, 194-203; C Renfrew (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney' (1985)
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 2190BC. Early Bronze Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone, id as tibia, Sample A from Quoyness, Sanday [Map], Orkney, Scotland.
ID: 4442, C14 ID: SRR-752 Date BP: 4190 +/- 50, Start Date BP: 4140, End BP: 4240
OS Letter: HY, OS East: 677, OS North: 378
Archaeologist Name: Childe
Reference Name: Antiquity, 50, 1976, 194-203; C Renfrew (ed), 'The prehistory of Orkney' (1985)
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767