Archaeology Notes

Event ID 642282

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU42SE 1 45732 23660

(HU 4573 2366) Broch of Mousa (NR)

OS 1:10,000 1972

Mousa Broch is situated on the W shore of the Island of Mousa, opposite Sandwick, 15 miles S of Lerwick on the Lerwick-Sumburgh road. Access is by motor boat hired from Leebatten, Sandwick. These two monuments are open at all reasonable times on application to the Caretaker.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Full description, photos, plans, etc. in Cruden (Cruden 1951).

S Cruden 1951

This broch is as descirbed by Cruden (Cruden 1951). Amorphous traces of outbuildings are visible, and the remains of a field wall skirt the broch.

Visited by OS (AA) 16 May 1969.

Discussion of a typicality of Mousa.

Booklet.

N Fojut 1982.