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Groundwater is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the Orkney Islands, situated approximately five hundred metres east-north-east of the settlement at Groundwater. The mound represents a funerary monument typical of the Bronze Age period in northern Scotland, when such earthen barrows served as communal or individual burial repositories. The site is recorded within the national heritage inventory as part of Orkney's significant prehistoric archaeological landscape, which contains numerous barrows and cairns spanning multiple millennia. Its preservation contributes to understanding Bronze Age mortuary practices and settlement patterns in the northern isles during the second millennium before the Common Era.
Groundwater, burial mounds 500m ENE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM1351. View the official record →
Groundwater is a Bronze Age burial mound located on the Orkney Islands, situated approximately five hundred metres east-north-east of the settlement at Groundwater. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM1351.
Groundwater, burial mounds 500m ENE of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM1351.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Groundwater, mound 200m NNW of, Loch of Kirbister (0.5 km), Loch of Kirbister,enclosures on Holm of Groundwater (0.7 km), Cuween Hill, chambered cairn (4.2 km).
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