Alternative Names Stone Of Setter; Carrick
Site type ENCLOSURE
Canmore ID 3147
Site Number HY53NE 14
NGR HY 5642 3750
Council ORKNEY ISLANDS
Parish EDAY
Former Region ORKNEY ISLANDS AREA
Former District ORKNEY
Former County ORKNEY

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Archaeological Notes

HY53NE 14 5642 3750.

(HY 5642 3750) Fold of Setter (NR).
OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed.,(1900).

A large circular enclosure of unknown date or purpose, situated on low-lying ground, and measuring 94 yds. in diameter within a peat and heather covered wall which is 7' thick at base. (Information from Mr R J Hebden, Eday). Broken fragments of masonry show through the covering. The interior is rough and heather-covered.
The name comes from the supposition that it was an ancient Picts cattle-fold. (Name Book 1879).
J Farrer 1859; Name Book 1879; G Petrie 1927; RCAHMS 1946.

A roughly circular enclosure, still known as Fold of Setter, occupying a NE-facing slope. Its W arc is partially destroyed, and the N arc partially lost in boggy ground. There is no definite entrance visible. Near the centre is a heather-covered mound of stones, c.2.0m in diameter and 0.2m high. Unable to classify.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 3 August 1970.

300m N of the Stone of Setter (HY53NE 6), the enclosure-wall of the Fold of Setter is traceable with some difficulty in rank grass and heather. The roughly circular area is some 85m across and the wall-footing was about 2m wide; no en trance can be identified, but there are considerable segments of the circuit where the wall cannot be seen.
RCAHMS 1984, visited September 1983.

Farrer, J (1859c) 'Notes on the bronze and iron remains dug up in a "Pict's House", in the Holm of Eday, Orkney', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, vol.2
Page(s): 179

Petrie, G (1927) 'Primeval antiquities of Orkney', Proc Orkney Antiq Soc, vol.5 paper written 1859
Page(s): 28

RCAHMS (1946) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Twelfth report with an inventory of the ancient monuments of Orkney and Shetland, 3v Edinburgh
Page(s): 63, No.235 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV/12