Linga Holm
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Linga Holm
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 3329
Site Number HY62NW 20
NGR HY 6165 2714
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Stronsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
HY62NW 20 6165 2714.
On flat ground forming the backshore is a vast confusion of earthfast and fallen slabs, some standing 0.5m high, which are obviously a complex of interconnecting chambers. The complex is some 19m across and seems to have had an entrance- passage at its S end which is slightly narrowed and directly faces the sea.
This very closely resembles the structure on Auskerry (HY61NE 3) but appears even better preserved; it is probably a Pictish house of 'anthropoid' type
Visited R G Lamb, May 1983.
RCAHMS 1984.
