Hunnigeo, Muckle Skerry
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Hunnigeo, Muckle Skerry
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Pentland Skerries; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 9513
Site Number ND47NE 9
NGR ND 4607 7830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish South Ronaldsay
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
ND47NE 9 4607 7830.
Stone foundations and traces of kitchen middens 140yds NW of the head of Hunni Geo on Muckle Skerry (information from A Black, lighthouse keeper).
RCAHMS 1946
Evidently a domestic structure at ND 4607 7830, surviving as a roughly circular turf-covered mound 0.6m high. The centre has been mutilated by an amateur excavation (? by Black) revealing part of a complex structure of slabs on edge the plan of which cannot be fully determined. A few limpet shells occur amongst the debris.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (AA) 8 May 1973
