Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644521

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY33SE 44 3731 3257

A farmstead comprising four unroofed buildings and two enclosures, a separate enclosure lying approximately 200m to the SSW and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Orkney and Shetland (Orkney) 1882, sheet lxxxiv). The head-dyke is conjoined to those of the farmsteads of Breck (HY33SE 54) and Croolea (HY33SE 56).

Two unroofed buildings and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1977).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 11 December 2000