View of remains of external settlement.
B 1102 CN
Description View of remains of external settlement.
Date 1988
Collection Lesley M Ferguson
Catalogue Number B 1102 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 336040
Scope and Content Broch known as the Broch of Mousa at Mousa, Shetland The Broch of Mousa stands on a low rocky headland on the W side of the island. The broch of Burraland stands opposite on the mainland. It has been cleared out twice in recent times and remains the best preserved of all the brochs in Scotland. This is a view of the remains of outbuildings. Unlike some other brochs, Mousa was never the centre of a village, though records do exist of a few outbuildings. The broch is mentioned twice in the Orkneyinga Saga where it is called Moseyjarborg. One of these occasions was in AD 1153 when it was used by Earl Harald. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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