Papa Westray, The Messigate
Road (Period Unknown)
Site Name Papa Westray, The Messigate
Classification Road (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 2902
Site Number HY45SE 58
NGR HY 49767 50824
NGR Description From HY 4987 5076 to HY 4964 5088
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2902
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Papa Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (June 1982)
The Messigate HY 4987 5076 to 4964 5088 HY45SE
There is now no trace of the 'mass road' (messu-gata,) that is said to have run from the Knowe of Burland (HY45SE 11) to St Tredwell’s Chapel (HY45SE 4).
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1982.
(Marwick 1925, 35; OR 794).
