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Papa Westray, Whitehowe
Naust (Post Medieval)
Site Name Papa Westray, Whitehowe
Classification Naust (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) King's Craig
Canmore ID 2879
Site Number HY45SE 37
NGR HY 4840 5060
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/2879
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Papa Westray
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Orkney
- Former County Orkney
Field Visit (June 1982)
Whitehowe HY 4840 5060 HY45SE
In the eroding cliff-face near Whitehowe, some 40m S of the King's Craig settlement-site (HY45SE 14) is a broad basin, which evidently is a naust seen in cross-section. It is 4m wide, 1.1 m deep, and its bottom is 0.9m above the beach. The naust has been filled with earth and stones; the earth fill merges on each side into a buried soil layer, which northwards merges into the lowest midden layer on the King's Craig site.
RCAHMS 1983, visited June 1982.
(OR 790).
Field Visit (1998)
A noost is cut into the bank some 40m to the south of the settlement (HY45SE14). It has been truncated by coastal erosion and is revealed in half-section. It measures 4m in width and is up to 1.1m deep. It is filled with earth and stone.
Moore and Wilson, 1998
Orkney Coastal Zone Assessment
