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Westray, Tuquoy Links
Naust(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Westray, Tuquoy Links
Classification Naust(S) (19th Century)
Canmore ID 2836
Site Number HY44SW 18
NGR HY 44867 42983
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2836
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (June 1981)
Tuquoy Links HY 4486 4298 HY44SW
On the top of the banks above a low geo are eight stone-built nausts probably of late nineteenth-century construction. They are up to 3.6m long and 2.2m wide at their mouths. At the head of the geo, directly facing the sea, are two slighter and narrower nausts which are probably older. They are about half the size of the others and their ends are very pointed.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1981.
(OR 894).
Field Visit (1998)
Eight noosts, defined by turf-covered walls, lie 2m or so behind the coast edge. The walls stand 1.1m high and they measure approximately 3.6m long by 2.2m wide. They face out on to flat rocks. Two further noosts lie nearby. These are not so clearly visible and may be older. They have pointed ends and are about half the size of the others.
Moore and Wilson, 1998
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey
