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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 804628
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/804628
HY33SE 52 3731 3282
A farmstead comprising one unroofed L-shaped building, three enclosures and one unroofed structure lying approximately 150m to the WNW, 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 North House (HY33SE 49), Hestivall (HY33SE 51) and Breek (HY33SE 53).
One unroofed building and the fragmentary remains of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1977).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 11 December 2000