Orkney Smr Note

Date September 1985

Event ID 620698

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Orkney Smr Note

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Entrance to earth-house open, with temporary covering of slabs. The earth-house lies at the N edge (bounded and partly cut by the estate road) of a shapeless raised area, evidently a settlement mound, to which the edge-slab described by RC and another one near it, belong. The two edge-slabs probably belong to a prehistoric house. The settlement mound has a height of about 0.3m although higher above estate road cut into it. It has been impinged on by old ploughing on S and E, this old ploughing appears to have resulted in soil-creep down slope from the S which has probably buried much of the settlement. Traceable limits of the mound are about 20m N-S x 25m measured along the estate road.

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sept 1985.