Eday, Den Trango
Dyke(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eday, Den Trango
Classification Dyke(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 3204
Site Number HY53SE 17
NGR HY 5588 3266
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Eday
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY53SE 17 5588 3266.
Slight traces of walls are exposed in peat diggings but the remains are too fragmentary for classification.
Visited by OS 24 July 1970.
Hebden was aware of extensive remains of old walls under the peat on the NE facing hillside between 40m and 55m OD. Over an area of at least 12ha many slabs set on edge can be found and some alignments traced, although intensive survey would be needed to reveal any pattern. The walls evidently were of the construction that used parallel upright slabs, some 0.6m to 0.8m apart, to form the foundation courses.
RCAHMS 1984, visited September 1982.
Orkney Smr Note (September 1982)
Area is covered with small cairns, tombs, or walls, some of
them circular and all of them nearly covered with peat moss, the
walls and dykes entirely so, except where they have been exposed
in digging for peats. The greatest number of these buildings lie
in the hollow or slope below it [the chambered tomb near the
ruined church]. The most of the dykes run in all directions
without the slightest attempt at regularity (except the circular
ones). Some of them are regularly built walls and some merely
stones heaped in a line. OR 758, [R1]
In the area around the ruined UP church, particularly on the
spur S of it (centred HY 550 323) in the velley to the NW and W
(HY 558 323) and on the hillside beyond (HY 558 326) are
extensive field systems. Not enough is exposed above the peat to
reveal a pattern but many edge-slabs protrude and alignments of
these can be made out. Where best exposed the slabs appear in
parallel settings, some 0.6-0.8m apart, the distinctive
prehistoric construction-technique. For cairns see ...
OR 764, OR 993-4,
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Sep 82.
