Collection Item
SH 338
Date 1949
Catalogue Number SH 338
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 336003, SC 2242648
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 close-up view of one of the two post-holes for the roof-beam supports. The roof itself would probably have been a turf-covered timber frame. The timber was spruce and was probably driftwood from across the Atlantic. 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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