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Orkney Smr Note
Date July 1979
Event ID 617138
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Orkney Smr Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/617138
Settlement of wheelhouses excavated W Traill 1884, J Traill
1889. [R1], [R2]
RCAMS summaries excavation reports. [R3]
Hamilton interprets as Iron Age settlement contemporary with
brochs - 2 large roundhouses on either side of a pared courtyard
accompanied by rectangular byres and steadings. [R4]
All now visible is SE arc of a wheelhouse (i on Traill's
plan) 5 courses high; 2 erect slabs being ends of radial piers;
amorphous traces of walling. OS visit Jul 70.
Whole area of Howmae is said to be tunneled by underground
buildings which extend as far as the farm of Kirbist; hollow
sound of ground especially notable in frosty weather. [R5]
As described OS except that only a very short length of
apparently straight wall now showing. The sea is seriously
attacking the dunes to the SW, but no settlement traces are now
visible in the erosion exposure.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jul 79.
