Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 621094

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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An area 5m x15m immediately to the W of the Grainbank earth-house, (OR 1555) was scrapped of topsoil during the construction of a car-park at the Hatston Industrial Estate. Archaeological deposits were uncovered immediately adjacent to the Grainbank earth house. An earth-house of at least two phases was found lying 6m west of the Grainbank structure. Another Iron Age building overlay the earth-house and fragmentary remains of the other structures survived to the N and S.

Based upon Petrie's recording that Farrer had in 1857 found he investigated Grainbank ' remains of walls running in various directions.....' etc, the writers believed they had found another part of 'what appears to have been quite an extensive Iron Age settlement', the relationship of which to the Grainbank earth-house was unclear and propose that a full investigation be launched should the site ever become threatened.

Full description of excavation and details with drawings and plans in OR detailed records.

Finds in Tankerness House Museum.

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]