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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645456
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645456
HY42SW 8 43488 21922
(HY 4345 2190) Langskaill: Castle (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).
A late-17th century building, which may incorporate considerably earlier work. The building enclosed three sides of a courtyard, a screen wall forming the fourth, south, side. This wall, and the east range, inhabited, remain.
On the east side of the house is an enclosure with the foundations of projecting turrets at the east angles.
On the shore a little SW of the house are the remains of a rectangular building, probably a storehouse, from which a boundary wall, provided with gun-loops, extends west to a kiln on the point known as the Taing (HY 432 219).
RCAHMS 1946.
Langskaill, as described except that no trace of the turrets at the angles of the enclosure can be seen.
Visited by OS (RL) 8 June 1967.
