Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2012
page 139 note 1 I visited all these sites in 1941; the majority have been recorded in the Inventory of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments (Scotland), printed in 1939 but not yet issued. Their no. 569 seems to me certainly not a chambered cairn but a round barrow of ‘Bronze Age’ type and has been omitted here.
page 141 note 1 Sourin was once divided into three ‘towns’, and the other divisions noted here diverge somewhat from those mentioned in early scat lists; see Marwick in Proc. Orkney Ant. Soc. ii, 19.
page 141 note 2 Old Statistical Account, 1793, vii, 336; even in 1627 there were 400 communicants in the parish.
page 142 note 1 Bones of wrasse and bream were noted in no. 1, of conger eel in no. 4.
page 142 note 2 Remains of red deer were particularly abundant in nos. 4 and 5.
page 142 note 3 E.g. Quandale, PSAS. 1936/7, 72; Mansies Knowes, Inventory no. 567 and nos. 563, 572, and 582 and the cremation interments found as secondaries in Taiversoe Tuack.