Archaeology Notes

Event ID 647102

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HY73NW 3 7120 3800.

(HY 7120 3800) Brough (NR)

OS 6" map, Orkney, 2nd ed,(1900).

A low mound which the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) does not provide evidence for classifying as a broch, nor could RCAHMS see any.

Name Book 1879; RCAHMS 1946, visited 1928.

A low, natural knoll, eroded by the sea, overlaid by a modern wall and surmounted by a sea marker cairn. There is no trace of man-made structures in the cliff face.

Visited by OS (NKB) 14 July 1970.