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Excavation
Date February 2014 - March 2014
Event ID 1013768
Category Recording
Type Excavation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1013768
HY 428 493 A programme of rescue excavation was undertaken, February – March 2014, within a rapidly deflating area inland of the Links of Noltland. The focus of attention was a group of dry stone buildings, exposed by erosion, together with a sample of their surrounding landscape. Work identified a complex structural sequence of rebuilding and replacement, representing at least six buildings, consisting of houses and outbuildings. The remains date to the mid-second millennium BC. Investigations of the wider landscape identified cultivation remains, enriched soils and domestic middens. The buildings are generally well preserved, with walls standing up to 1m high. This settlement, together with two further settlement clusters located nearby and their associated cemeteries represent the most complete Bronze Age landscape yet to be investigated in Orkney.
Archive: RCAHMS
Funder: Historic Scotland
Hazel Moore and Graeme Wilson – EASE Archaeology
(Source: DES)
