Field Visit
Date 9 May 2013
Event ID 963746
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/963746
The farmstead comprising three buildings and a corn-drying kiln set on the S and E sides respectively of one of at least three conjoined enclosures. The largest building (HY 37242 31432) is situated on the S side of an enclosure and measures 8m from E to W by 2.2m transversely within grass-grown stone wall-footings about 1m in thickness and 0.4m in height. There is a bed outshot in the E end of the S wall, and what may be an entrance at the W end of the N wall. An extension to the W end, at a lower level, measures about 2.4m from E to W by 1.4m transversely within similar walls. A smaller building stands immediately to the S and measures 2.5m from N to S by 2.2m transversely within stone walls 0.8m in thickness and 0.4m in height. A third, apparently less well preserved, building lies at the S end of the E side of the enclosure and measures about 6.3m from N to S by 3.3m within walls reduced to footings. At its N end there are the disturbed remains of a corn-drying kiln (HY 37255 31442) which measures 5m in overall diameter.
The farmstead is depicted unroofed on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney 1882, Sheet LXXXIV.16).
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 9 May 2013.
