HOWER
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Title: HOWER
Reference number: 2359
Date: 1937
Director: filmed by William Kirkness
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 14.40 mins
Description: Amateur footage of the excavation of a prehistoric site on Papa Westray, Orkney.
Credits:
camera and d. William Kirkness with William Traill, Charles Harvey, John Mackay, Ann and Dorothy Harcus.
A prehistoric structure on Papa Westray
Excavated by William Traill CE FSA Scot. and William Kirkness FSA Scot.
Shotlist: credits (.34) The site is on the west side of the small island of Papa Westray... map showing location (1.04) shot of Traill looking at plan of site with captions explaining the lay-out (3.02) two men and a woman investigate the site,captions explaining lay-out (6.45) This part of the wall fell, but a film taken before its collapse shows a saddle quern with its two rubbers shot of a woman demonstrating how quern was used to grind food (7.28) more shots of the site with accompanying explanatory captions (14.24) The End This Structure is Described in Volume LXXI Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (14.40)