Field Visit

Date June 1981

Event ID 619319

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/619319

The wall 1.2m thick can be traced around NE corner which is

rounded. The building appears to be oval. The base course of

this wall is of edge-slabs, and other orthostats project here and

there forming no obvious pattern. The whole however suggests a

prehistoric house of Bronze Age type rather than a mediaeval

building. The dyke from the E corner runs down to the shore well

to the W of Knowe of Burristae, and the dyke from the NW also

runs to the shore on the far side of the headland. From this

dyke about 12m from the W side of the structure, another dyke

runs at right angles S from it towards the shore.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 81.