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Billia Fiold is a post-medieval complex of enclosures, platforms and banks located in Orkney, Scotland. The site comprises a series of field divisions and terraced structures typical of agricultural improvement during the 17th to 18th centuries, when Orkney's farming landscape was substantially reorganised. The platforms and banks would have facilitated stock management and crop cultivation across terrain that required considerable modification to become productive.
The monument sits upon Lower Old Red Sandstone bedrock, formed during the Early Devonian period, comprising conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone. This underlying geology influenced both the construction methods used on site and the drainage characteristics of the enclosures, shaping how the landscape was worked and managed during the post-medieval period.
The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM13448. Billia Fiold represents an important phase in Orkney's agricultural history, when landowners invested in systematic landscape remodelling to improve the efficiency and yield of their estates during the early modern period.
Billia Fiold, enclosures, platforms and banks is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM13448. View the official record →
Billia Fiold is a post-medieval complex of enclosures, platforms and banks located in Orkney, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM13448.
Billia Fiold, enclosures, platforms and banks dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosures, platforms and banks. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Billia Fiold, enclosures, platforms and banks is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM13448.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Burn of Selta, farmsteads, field system and associated remains (2.5 km), Brockan, burnt mound 300m S of (5.3 km), Diamond Cottage,defended promontory N of (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Billia Fiold, enclosures, platforms and banks's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Billia Fiold, enclosures, platforms and banks stands on Lower Old Red Sandstone, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.