Field Visit
Date 12 August 2015
Event ID 1010346
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010346
This irregularly shaped, drystone enclosure stands at the edge of the stony beach 34m SE of The Lodge (NY32NE 89). It measures up to 10.3m from N to S by 8.2m transversely, within a wall up to 0.9m thick and 1.45m high. It is the only one of nine contiguous enclosures depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney Sheet LXXXIX.7, 1882) that is still in use, although it now contains a series of more recent fences for the management of sheep. The other enclosures, which are reduced to their stone footings, extend roughly 100m ENE.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 12 August 2015
Moore and Thomas 2008, Sites 1 and 2
