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Field Visit
Date 12 August 2015
Event ID 1010378
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1010378
Although these remains have been previously recorded as those of a possible burial cairn (RCAHMS 1946; OS 1967) or of a clearance cairn (Lamb in RCAHMS 1982; Moore and Thomas 2008), they may be those of a ruined farmstead. A small square unroofed building is shown here on the 1st edition of the OS 25 inch map (Orkney Sheet LXXIX.7, 1882), while a farmstead known as ‘South House’ is depicted in approximately this location upon a sketch plan of 1827 (Orkney Archives Ref. D1/440/1).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 12 August 2015
Moore and Thomas 2008, Site 34
