Sanday, Tofts Ness
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Kelp Working Site (Post Medieval)
Site Name Sanday, Tofts Ness
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Kelp Working Site (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 313981
Site Number HY74NE 12
NGR HY 76201 47356
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/313981
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Lady
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (1999)
A drystone platform and a series of ruinous kelp drying walls are located immediately behind the coast edge.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999.
Note (14 November 2012)
A possible farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings and two enclosures is visible on aerial photography (25cm RGB Imagery, 2008) on the shoreline at Tofts Ness. The first building, aligned N-S, is unroofed and measures about 10m by 5m. It is divided into three compartments. The second building, also unroofed, is aligned E-W and is attached to the first structure at its NE corner. It is of similar dimensions and is also divided into three compartments. The two buildings stand at the E end of an enclosure measuring about 35m by 15. A further enclosure, measuring about 60m by 15m, is located some 10m E of the buildings. Both enclosures are aligned with the shoreline and are divided internally by walls or turf banks.
These structures may represent the remains of a farmstead and/or a kelp working complex. The first edition of the Ordnance Survey County Series (1:10560) depicts one of the buildings as roofed but does not give the structures a specific name.
Information from RCAHMS (SC) 14 November 2012.
