Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Field Visit
Date 21 August 2014
Event ID 1000845
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1000845
This farmstead, which was abandoned in 1974 and now comprises both roofed and unroofed buildings, is situated within an area of improved arable ground on the west coast of Swona. It was not recorded in detail on the date of visit but is fully described elsewhere (Findlay 2010). The 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney 1882, Sheet CXXV.4) depicts at least five roofed buildings here (one of which is a kiln-barn), two unroofed buildings, three wells, and ten enclosures. The farmstead was expanded in the late 19th century, a process that included the construction of a house shown on the 2nd edition of the 6-inch map (Orkney 1903, Sheet CXXV).
The remains of other, presumably earlier, structures are visible in the rough ground immediately to the NE of the farmstead at ND 3896 8478. A font (ND38NE 1), referred to as a knocking stone by Findlay (2010) but probably associated with St Peter’s Chapel, stands outside the W corner of the main group of buildings.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 21 August 2014.
