Photographic Survey

Date 2004

Event ID 553962

Category Recording

Type Photographic Survey

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NF 101 991 (centre) A survey of the coastline in Village Bay was carried out to assess the impact of erosion on possible archaeological deposits. The survey indicated minimal erosion along the NE side of the bay.

The annual monitoring of cleits across the island was carried out and the photographic survey of them continued. A photographic survey of the head dyke was also progressed.

A small excavation around House 6, Main Street, Hirta, was carried out in advance of a new drain. A large number of late 19th/early 20th-century artefacts were recovered, suggesting that the area behind and to the W side of the house had been used as a midden.

A portion of thatch, including surviving heather rope, was noted within the wall core of Blackhouse F.

Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.