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Date 3 September 1930

Event ID 1173786

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1173786

‘Tubby’ Clayton's Castle.

'The Rev. P. B. Clayton - Tubby to the Toc H. members - and Mr J. Storer Clouston, who wrote ‘The Lunatic at Large’, have unearthed a castle in Orkney where Mr Storer Clouston is a considerable laird, says ‘Quex’, in the ‘News Chronicle’. He and Mr Clayton came upon some promising ruins at Castle Howe, in Holm, at the south end of Pomona, and naturally, as ‘Tubby’ has been ordered north for a rest cure, they began excavating at once. In the hope that they were on the track of a Pictish broch they dug into a mound to be disappointed with ‘a medieval ring’. That is how Mr Storer Clouston puts it'.

Orkney Herald, and Weekly Advertiser and Gazette for the Orkney & Zetland Islands (3 September 1930, p.4).