Sanday, Holms Of Ire
Hut(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century), Kelp Working Site (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Sanday, Holms Of Ire
Classification Hut(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century), Kelp Working Site (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Canmore ID 3484
Site Number HY64NE 10
NGR HY 6506 4574
NGR Description HY 65066 45725 and HY 65064 45764
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Cross And Burness
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (June 1979)
Circular kelp-burning pits 1.5m diameter at extreme landward
end of holm, 6506 4572. Drying racks at 6507 4576. Two small
rectangular foundations, probably kelpers' bothies, 6504 4581.
Other structures are inextricably confused with the natural
boulder-beach and with the debris of the chapel.
Information from Orkney SMR (RGL) Jun 79, OR 106.
Note (1980)
Holms of Ire, Sanday HY c. 651 457 HY64NE
Many pits and drying-racks and sites of two huts.
RCAHMS 1980
(OR 376)
Field Visit (1999)
Several kelp-burning pits and drying walls are located on the inner holm. The pits measure about 2m in diameter and are 0.5m deep. Ref.: RCAHMS (1980), #216.
Moore & Wilson 1999.
Coastal Zone Assessment Survey, 1999
