Orkney Smr Note

Event ID 620518

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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The palace stands at the N end of the village near the shore at Birsay Bay. It has been a large building but large proportions have disappeared. A drawing of 17th century date is presented in the General Register House. Edinburgh. Above the main entrance on the S are the initials REO for Robert Earl of Orkney with the date 1574 on a window over the gateway. Reputed treasonable by King James 6th ROBERTUS STEUARTUS FILIUS JACOBI Sti REX SCOTORUM HOC AEDIFICIUM INSTRUXITTwo periods can be distinguished the second probablytwenty-thirty years later. It was built about the year 1574, was two stories high. Recovered from a well in the middle of the courtyard in 1929 were five finials, one bearing the initial G. For more information refer to RCAMS.[R1,R2]

Detailed historical treatment with passim descriptive notes (Anderson, PD 1982 "Robert Stewart Earl of Orkney, Lord of

Shetland", Edinburgh, 1985.)

Information from Orkney SMR [n.d.]