Collection Item
D 94013 CS
Date 9/1979
Catalogue Number D 94013 CS
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 336250
Scope and Content Settlement at Stanydale, West Mainland, Shetland The settlement at Stanydale consists of five structures, a system of field-walls and clearance cairns. Four of the buildings are oval houses and the fifth is a great hall which would have been a chieftain's house or tribal meeting hall. This is a view of the interior of the great hall or "temple". It is a single oval room with six alcoves, formed by large boulders, at the far end. In the middle are the post holes for the timbers which supported the central roof beam. The hall has been excavated and partially restored. Finds included stone tools and pottery along with a pile of burnt sheep bone, perhaps a ritual deposit. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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