Field Visit
Date 13 August 2015
Event ID 1010357
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010357
This group of three drystone enclosures is situated in rough pasture immediately above the shoreline on the E coast of the island. Arranged from N to S, the most southerly measures internally about 23m from NNW to SSE by 7m transversely, the centre one measures about 17m from N to S by 6m transversely, while the most northerly measures about 25m from NNW to SSE by 21m transversely at its widest point. A section of walling at the NE corner of the central enclosure possibly incorporates an earlier two-room building which is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney Sheet LXXXIX.7, 1882); while the northern enclosure has clearly been robbed of stone for the construction of another building with wing-walls to immediately to its NE [at HY36519 29204].
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 13 August 2015
Moore and Thomas 2008, Site 6 (a-d)
