Field Visit

Date February 1981

Event ID 884492

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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As described. The slabs just visible around the navigation cairn on highest point of promontory do seem to represent structures. The drift cap here is being eroded but the sections show only a narrow covering of peaty material above the bedrock. The OS vague circular bank which is at HY 2183 1572 was clearly visible is Feb 1981 when grass was low and is a hut-circle of

4.5m internal diameter, with 3 erect earth-fast slabs at intermittent positions suggesting internal wall-face, within walls some 1m thick but their outer limits indeterminate. [R3],

Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Feb 81.