Excavation

Date September 2007 - October 2007

Event ID 558562

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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HY 4280 4930 An excavation was carried out between September and October 2007 on a complex of buildings

threatened by aeolian erosion in the scheduled area at Links of Noltland. The findings indicate a settlement of probable Bronze Age date comprising of three associated circular/sub-circular buildings. They all have thick, double faced stone walls. Two of the buildings form a unit; their entrances are opposed with a paved passage set between them. The larger of these has a central hearth, is radially partitioned and appears to have served

a domestic function. The smaller building is divided into a series of bays, contains a stone-lined tank and may have been used as a byre/store/workshop. The third building is set apart and has been too severely truncated by erosion to determine its full original form.

Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS. Report to be deposited with Orkney SMR and Historic Scotland.

Funder: Historic Scotland.