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Field Visit
Date July 1982
Event ID 1145866
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1145866
Westness HY 3754 2964 HY32NE 17
Variously Vestnes, Vestrnes in Orkneyinga Saga - residence of Sigurd who married a great-granddaughter of Thorfinn the Mighty, and scene of the abduction of Earl Paul Haakonsson by Sweyn Asleifsson. In the twelfth century this was the leading household on the island. A house 35m long and two adjacent buildings interpreted as byres were excavated in the late 1960s.
RCAHMS 1982, visited July 1982
(Orkneyinga Saga chs. xxxiii, liv, lvi, lxv, lxvi, lxx, lxxiv, lxxvi; Clouston 1927, 46; Radford 1957, 36; Radford 1962, 175; Medieval Archaeol, 8, 1964, 240; Kai and 1973, details in English summary differ from Norwegian text; latter is definitive; OR 543)
