Orkney Smr Note

Date November 1984

Event ID 619452

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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The chambered cairn on Hacos Ness is overlain by dykes

belonging to derelict quoys. Extending SE from these towards the

tiny bothy at the extreme point of the Ness, is a very

indeterminate band of smallish stones almost flush with the turf.

In some places this appears as a single band some 5m wide,

elsewhere it seems to be two parallel bands separated by a narrow

space, as if there has been a walled lane perhaps for driving

sheep along. There is no structure apparent anywhere. 25m short

of the Ness it stops as a T-junction with a narrow dyke running

from the sea side to the modern field fence. This dyke appears

as the foundation of a conventional dyke 0.6m broad, but both it

and the vestigial broad wall or walls appear to be older than the

ruined quoys and not to be associated with them.

OR 1089,

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Nov 84.