Field Visit
Date June 1981
Event ID 1156244
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156244
Hodgalee HY 4644 4473 HY44SE 3
This is an overgrown settlement-mound near the head of the Bay of Tuquoy (10m OD); the most obvious feature is a steep rise some 2m high, but the settlement evidently extends beyond this. In the shoreline just clear of the mound on its SE side, recent erosion has exposed several walls, including the crudely-built outer face of a round building. In better masonry next to this a lintelled doorway, 0.7m wide and clear to a height of 0.7m, opens into a chamber which is choked with debris. W of the mound on the shoreline are two nausts, the N with drystone lining and clearly-defined mouth, 2m wide and 5m long, the S is 2m wide and 7m long, both pointed-ended. Beneath the nausts is an exposure of midden material.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981.
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 350, No. 1035; OR 725).
