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Materials relating to excavations at the Calf of Cava, Orphir, Orkney.

551 441/7

Description Materials relating to excavations at the Calf of Cava, Orphir, Orkney.

Date 1983

Collection Professor John R Hunter

Catalogue Number 551 441/7

Category All Other

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/2235045

Collection Hierarchy - Group Level

Collection Level (551 441) Professor John R Hunter

> Group Level (551 441/7) Materials relating to excavations at the Calf of Cava, Orphir, Orkney.

Preview Category Catalogue Number Title Date Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36185 Survey photograph : site 1 - low rectangular turf covered mound, with rough stone flagging in centre. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36186 Survey photograph : site 2 - lighthouse (automatic). 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36384 Survey photograph : view over to Calf of Cava and site 2, lighthouse. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36369 Survey photograph : site 35b - agricultural/storage unit, with small sub-structure at east end. Drystone construction, partially surviving turf roof. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36360 Survey photograph : site 36 - stone built jetty, visible for 30m at low tide. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36187 Survey photograph : site 3 - rectangular concrete kerbing with rubble fill to south of lighthouse. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36188 Survey photograph : site 4 - wooden post - probably navigation or cable marker. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36189 Survey photograph : site 5 - sub-rectangular mound - possibly burial cairn. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36190 Survey photograph : site 5 - detail of possible burial cairn. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36191 Survey photograph : site 6 - concrete jetty, near lighthouse. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36192 Survey photograph : low mound of overgrown angular slabbed stones. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36401 Survey photograph : site 51 - general view of 'south house', a farmstead comprised of three structures. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36402 Survey photograph : site 51a - front elevation of latest domestic structure - single room, chimney at each end; drystone construction. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36193 Survey photograph : site 8 - earthwork consisting of two conjoined circular depressions. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36194 Survey photograph : site 9 - sub-circular earthwork, with bank composed of earth, turf and stones, and stone flagged path leading up to possible entrance. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36195 Survey photograph : site 10 - sub-circular earthwork, with bank composed of earth, turf and stones, and stone flagged path. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36196 Survey photograph : site 11 - remains of grass-grown concrete platform with partial evidence of earth and turf banking on west side. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36197 Survey photograph : site 12 - sub-rectangular earthwork with earth, turf and stone banks, and remains of wooden post in centre. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36198 Survey photograph : site 13 - remains of narrow, winding, partially flagged pathway providing access to sites 9 and 10. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36199 Survey photograph : site 14 - boundary dyke of length c 80m, running from sea to sea across land neck. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36200 Survey photograph : sub-rectangular earth-cut feature. Narrow ditch runs from south-west corner into sea. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36341 Survey photograph : site 16 - military complex comprising : (a) concrete platform with stone faced walling on western edge. (b) low, turf covered mound. (c) concrete platform to north of (a). (d) several concrete drain entrances. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36342 Survey photograph : site 17 - foundation remains of two structures/enclosures, conjoined by west wall leaving partially enclosed area. Both situated on narrow isthmus joining Cava to Calf of Cava. 1983 Item Level
Photographs and Off-line Digital Images B 36343 Survey photograph : site 18 - length of stone walling c 2m long of drystone construction with some evidence of rough mortaring and intensive burning. 1983 Item Level

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