Sanday, Seater Steading
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Sanday, Seater Steading
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Seater Steading
Canmore ID 112843
Site Number HY74SW 26
NGR HY 72018 43963
NGR Description Centred HY 72018 43963
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112843
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Lady
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY 72018 43963.
This single-storeyed, gabled farmstead has an L-shape plan. There is a freestanding barn with a circular horse walk located to the rear. When visited the buildings had been abandoned and some were roofless.
Information from RCAHMS (SS) 19 January 2006.
Field Visit (1999)
The farmstead at Seater is built over a substantial mound, which is more than likely a settlement or farm mound. It lies over 100m from the coast edge and has been surveyed by RCAHMS. The jetty is now largely destroyed and is visible only as a group of intermittent edge-set stones on the lower foreshore. It can be traced for some 20m extending into the sea and is estimated to have measured between 1.75m and 2m in width. Ref.: RCAHMS (1980), # 88 & 200; RCAHMS & NMS (1998) 'Scottish Farm Buildings Survey: Orkney', #31.
Moore & Wilson 1999.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999
