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Field Visit
Date June 1982
Event ID 885393
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/885393
Weelies Taing HY 505 533 HY55SW
Weelies Taing is an extensive boulder-spit comprising two arms, which enclose a tidal pond, the whole being covered at high tide. On the narrower (W) arm are three groups of structures, all built of water-worn slabs packed slantwise face-to-face, with the faces transverse to the line of the walls. Nearest to the land are two parallel walls, of similar construction, 6m apart, forming a 'roadway' running along the taing; the W wall seems to be the E edge of a broad platform. Half-way along, the arm is crossed by a transverse wall, and at its extremity, where it joins the broader (E) arm, is a substantial circular pund 9m in diameter over walls 0.6m thick. Near its N margin a fragmentary wall, traceable for some 20m, meanders away to the ENE. The circular pund was probably a refuge or 'sheep-fort', for sheep cut off by the tide, but the other structures, which have taken much labour to construct, are less readily explained.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1982.
(OR 823).
