Orkney Smr Note

Date September 1980

Event ID 619074

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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On E side of Moaness a reclangular naust, aligned NE-SW, 10m

x 5m, two-period. Its second phase is quite like a modern Orkney

naust, the erlier period being a substantial building. A few

rivets found. [R1]

Presumably related to nearby Norse settlement. - see OR 534.

'Norwegians have uncovered remains of two rectangular

drystone buildings one apparently overlying the other. According

to local information the excavators believe this to be a Viking

naust, but quality of building suggests it may be a later house.'

OS visit Oct 82.

Now backfilled.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 1980.