Westray, Trenabie

HY45SW 1 4432 5103

(HY 4432 5103) Brough (NR) (Site of).

OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).

Described as the remains of an ancient house by the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB), but as a Standing Stone by the RCAHMS, who also note that it is locally said to mark a grave. The stone stands immediately landward of a wall separating a field from the beach. It is 2' 6" high, 2' broad and 8" thick, and it is possible that its top has been broken off. On the other side of the dyke and 6' 6" from the first, a small stone set on edge projects above the turf.

Name Book 1879; RCAHMS 1946.

This stone at HY 4432 5103, on the E side of a modern wall, is as described by RCAHMS, but is almost certainly not a broken standing stone. On the W side of the wall, the other stone mentioned by RCAHMS is a slab on edge protruding through a turf-grown stony mound of which there are traces on the E side of the wall although most of it has been quarried away. The site defies classification without excavation, but it could well be the remains of a chambered cairn.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (AA) 3 July 1970.

Scheduled as Trenabie Farm, standing stones, mound and bank.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 October 2000.

Now visible as a very slight mound with occasional protruding stones. It measures some 50m by 25m and it would appear to have been greatly reduced since it was first recorded. Assessment is required to determine the nature of the remaining archaeological deposits.

Orkney Coastal Zone Assessment 1998.