Eynhallow

HY 36041 29076 A desk-based assessment and walkover survey of the island of Eynhallow was undertaken in April 2007. A total of 65 sites were recorded, ranging from post-medieval buildings to prehistoric structures. Of particular interest was the identification of a previously unrecorded burnt mound in the N of the island, several possible prehistoric burial mounds and a well preserved sequence of field dykes. Although further work is required to understand these boundaries, initial assessment suggests there is clear phasing and chronological depth to these features which may include potential prehistoric land divisions.

Report to be deposited with the Orkney SMR and RCAHMS.

Funder: Hunter Archaeological Trust, Viking Society for Northern Research, Orkney Archaeological Trust, Orkney College Geophysics Unit.

This irregularly shaped, drystone enclosure stands at the edge of the stony beach 34m SE of The Lodge (NY32NE 89). It measures up to 10.3m from N to S by 8.2m transversely, within a wall up to 0.9m thick and 1.45m high. It is the only one of nine contiguous enclosures depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Orkney Sheet LXXXIX.7, 1882) that is still in use, although it now contains a series of more recent fences for the management of sheep. The other enclosures, which are reduced to their stone footings, extend roughly 100m ENE.

Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 12 August 2015

Moore and Thomas 2008, Sites 1 and 2