Stoney Holm
Crannog (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stoney Holm
Classification Crannog (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 2224
Site Number HY32NW 6
NGR HY 3113 2731
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Birsay And Harray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY32NW 6 3113 2731.
(HY 3112 2731) A rectangular structure, measuring some 37 ft by 23 ft, with its major axis lying slightly north of east and south of west, has occupied almost the whole of the available area on the island of Stoney Holm. It is now reduced to its foundations. At the SE corner of the lowest course of masonry is visible, but elsewhere the outline is obscure and the wall-thickness cannot be determined. The island is not connected to the shore by a causeway, but can easily be reached by wading.
RCAHMS 1946.
Stoney Holm is generally as described by the Commission, except that vegetation and tumble now obscure the structure so that only a short stretch of the SE wall is visible. Unable to classify.
Visited by OS (NKB) 4 June 1967.
Orkney Smr Note (July 1984)
As discribed, but the central feature is just a shapeless
overgrown heap with many loose stones, rising from a flat,
seemingly natural islet amid shallow water. Only at the SE corner
of the mound is a masonry wall face visible. It is a single
course wall face, 3 stones long, the stones being massive in size,
but there is no definite corner. All along the shore between
HY3112 2731 and HY3127 2695 (OR 1575) is a step or notch some 0.7m
- 0.8m high, apparently indicating an older higher water level.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) July 1984.
