House1
A 83804 CS
Description House1
Date 1975
Collection Papers of Dr J N Graham Ritchie, and Dr Anna Ritchie, archaeologists, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number A 83804 CS
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 336088
Scope and Content Settlement at Knap of Howar, Papa Westray, Orkney This neolithic settlement is at Knap of Howar. Until is was excavated in the 1930s much of the site was hidden by 4 m of sand. The settlement consists of two structures and would have been a single-family farmstead. This is a view of the house. It is the larger and better preserved of the two buildings. Upright stone slabs divide it into two rooms. A short passage leads from the outer room to the workshop building. Cupboards have been built into the walls. Many of the finds from the site are now in the RMS. These include bone and stone tools and fragments of a local pottery known as Unstan Ware. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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