Field Visit

Date July 1981

Event ID 619285

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619285

42m of midden exposed, embedded in it are remains of rwo

separate structures with stonework measuring 4.4m and 5.7m

across. The midden contained no datable artefacts and was

composed of shells and many fish bones. Minor excavations in

1978 sampled the exposed midden at a point distant from the

structures. Finds included a cetacean bone pin, a perforated pig

phalange, pottery, numerous faunal remains, particularly fish,

marine molllusca and carbonised grain. [R1], [R2]

In eroding sea banks, an exposure some 25m long of shell and

animal bone midden with some stonework at N end of exposure.

Deposit has a maximum depth of 1.5m from present ground level

above; where there is a slight mound. Main feature of the

stonework is a probable drain running in at right angles from the

cliff - it has laid masonry walls and lintel-slabs, 0.3m wide at

present opening, widening to 0.4m within, and open to a height of

0.3m. The full length of a 2m pole pushed inside met no

obstruction.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 81.