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Field Visit
Date June 1981
Event ID 619306
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619306
Late Norse or High Mediaeval settlement rapidly eroding from
shoreline. Massively heavy walls of quarried stones, mostly dry
laid but one massive section has lime mortar. Near here is an
opening running about 0.8m back into section, with wall-face one
side and rubble the other - may be a doorway but could equally
well be due to walls of different buildling-periods having moved
apart through subsidence. Extending W, the heavy slab-formed
floors have drains (the OS 'passages') running out under them,
very suggestive of byres. - This settlement is clearly a high-
status one and must be associated with Cross Kirk. It is
presumably the original nucleus of the estate of Tuquoy.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 81.
