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Wyre, Testaquoy
Farmhouse (Period Unknown), Nail, Unidentified Pottery
Site Name Wyre, Testaquoy
Classification Farmhouse (Period Unknown), Nail, Unidentified Pottery
Canmore ID 2652
Site Number HY42NW 36
NGR HY 43 25
NGR Description HY c. 43 25
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2652
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Rousay And Egilsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY42NW 36 c. 43 25
See also HY42SW 34.
In the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (Accession nos: HR 1141-6) are sherds, a steatite rim fragment, and a bronze nail, provenanced to Testaquoy (HY 433 257) and the accession dated 1943. They may have come from the settlement site HY42NW 34.
RCAHMS 1982.
Site identified as part of a desk-based assessment followed by a broad-scale landscape survey.
HY 43297 25708 A small single-storey farmstead. The buildings are organised in an elongated layout orientated east-west and consisting of one main original range now incorporating the original crofthouse into the farmbuildings.
HY 43947 25621 Three adjacent boat nousts. They are orientated north by south. The easternmost noust measures 2m by 3m, the middle noust measures 3m by 4m and westernmost measures 2m by 3.5m.
Antonia Thomas, 2006.
Note (1982)
Testaquoy area HY 43 25 HY42NW
In NMAS (HR 1141-6) are sherds, a steatite rim fragment, and a bronze nail, provenanced to Testaquoy and the accession dated 1943. They may have come from the settlement site, HY42NW 34.
RCAHMS 1982
(OR 806)
