OR 2734

Date 2000

Event ID 611396

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/611396

Building 12.85m by 3.55m inside walls 0.6m wide and up to 1.65m high. Aligned NW-SE, located on E side of farmhouse. Traces of earlier foundations at NW end of building. Small-scale evaluation trench across the interior of the building, below the stone floor, revealed fragmentary wall line of a building aligned E-W. Abutted by levelling spread of midden material, up to 0.6m deep, from which 2 fragments of steatite were recovered.

Lowe, Buteaux and Hunter DES 2000, p67.

Information from Orkney SMR