Archaeology Notes
Date 1972
Event ID 644766
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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HY33SE 17.00 37385 30192
HY33SE 17.01 3738 3019 Architectural Fragments
(HY 3738 3019). The Wirk: A small stone tower with a stone-built hall on one side, suggestive of a multi-period dwelling of the 11th to 13th centuries and perhaps earlier. In the mid-12th century the land was held by Sigurd of Westness, who was probably the builder of The Wirk. (See also HY33SE 17.01)
Sources: D M Wilson and D G Hurst 1965; RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1929.
The Wirk: The remains of a small but strong stone tower with traces of other buildings and walls, as described by the RCAHMS.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 10 October 1972.
