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Orkney Smr Note

Date March 1984

Event ID 619329

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619329

The gale of February 1984 did great damage all along the

shoreline below and to E of Maltlbarn. The sea has scoured out

the red clay underlying the archaeological deposits leaving a

near-vertical bare face beneath the massive stonework, which

itself however seems to have escaped damage. Some 10m extended E

from the main wall, the grass has slumped down and on falling,

will expose more stonework which can be glimpsed behind it. A

further 10m E beyond this length, the turf has been completely

removed, exposing, immediately below clifftop turf level, 0.6m of

shell and animal bone midden overlying 0.6m of soft sand, below

which is an 0.2m thick buried soil above the natural clay.

Further E still, the banks are much undercut, but turf has

slumped down, concealing deposits. - This face has receded some

2m since the above record (Oct 81) was made.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Mar 84.

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