HU27NE 16 2792 7703. (Area: HU 279 770) Four late-Celtic (Allen 1896) long- handled bone weaving combs were found with pottery, bone implements, bones and shells, in a kitchen midden on the West Ayre at Hillswick, and 30 to 40 yds north of the supposed site of St. Magnus's Church (HU27NE 9). The midden lay on 'an outcrop of sand' contiguous to the present sea-beach and only about 20 yds from H.W.M. Erosion of the out- crop has been assisted by the formation of a saw-pit. Coughtrey favoured the idea that a broch had existed here, but could find no evidence, apart from the suitable situation and the presence of what he thought were broch-like stones in adjacent buildings. 'That buildings once existed there, old inhabitants can affirm; but they say these were fishermen's cottages and huts, and that they were dismantled by the sea and by man'. Finds in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS). M Coughtrey 1873 Midden sited at HU 2793 7705 from Coughtrey's description, but there is now no trace of it. Visited by OS (NKB) 23 April 1969 Site confirmed and extended by observation of shells, bones, charcoal and fragments of probable Iron Age pottery. Visited by SDD (N Fojut) 23 October 1980.