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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 640957
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/640957
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(HU 2261 4690) Vaila House (NAT)
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1900).
The modern Vaila House incorporates, in its south side, its predecessor, a rectangular building 44' by 16' 8" within walls about 3' thick; two storeys and a garret in height and lying east-west. Over the door is a coat of arms dated 1696 to which date this building may be assigned.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 1931.
Vaila House, as described by RCAHMS. The coat of arms dated 1696 is over the original doorway on the N, now inside the modern structure.
Visited by OS (R L), 18 June 1968.
