<< Our Photo Pages >> Setter Noost - Ancient Village or Settlement in Scotland in Orkney
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Setter Noost Alternative Name: Setter NoustCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 0.6 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Orkney Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirkwall Nearest Village: Balfour Village
Map Ref: HY47301621
Latitude: 59.029662N Longitude: 2.919802W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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In 1972 in the low shore twenty metres west of a ruined lime kiln (possibly Lady Well re-used) in a seventeen metre exposure the O.S. saw several orthostats and bits of drystane wall as well as a midden 1.3 metres thick. At the west end of this an obvious external wall-face was in 1985 thought to be from some kind of round house, and quite a large one at that. In 1998 the Setter Noust site is described as walling indicative of an early structure and tumbled stone, with pot and bone and burnt stone in the extended midden.
There was an erdhus in the vicinity too. Balfour Castle is based on an earlier grand house called Cliffdale, and sometime prior to 1796, close to the site of several failed lead mines, a souterrain came to light. RCAHMS record no. HY41NE 12 (location unknown) was sunk about a yard deep and had a roof of large slabs set on four foot high pillars (aka masonry piers). It comprised twin hexagonal cells, each about 8' across, and a rectangular one the same. A finger-ring of gold came from this passage.
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