What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, Stenchme as Animal Burial(s) (early Bronze Age), Cist (early Bronze Age), Inhumation (early Bronze Age), Unidentified Object(s) (flint)(early Bronze Age), Unidentified Pottery (pottery)(early Bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Early Bronze Age cist and inhumation burial; associated with animal remains and flint objects, indicating ritual or funerary practices of the period.
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