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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 641282

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/641282

HU30NE 2 3878 0839.

(HU 3878 0839) Brough (NR)

OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed., (1903).

A gatehouse fort, probably datable to about 100 BC, isolated by a rampart, with a ditch on either side, cutting across the neck of the peninsula on which it stands.

The site was excavated by Miss C L Mowbray in 1935.

C L Mowbray 1936; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1930; E W MacKie 1965; R G Lamb 1980.

A gatehouse fort as described and planned by RCAHMS. At HU 3877 0855, the spread remains of a stone wall, now evident as a low turf covered bank, cuts off the whole promontory, and may possibly be associated with the 'fort'.

Visited by OS(RL) 2 May 1968.

In 1983, a single cutting was made through the enclosure bank at a point at its N end where it was being actively eroded by the sea, to record its structure and recover dating evidence. No artefacts were found.

S Carter, R McCullagh and A MacSween 1995.

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