Field Visit
Date 21 July 1930 - 4 July 1934
Event ID 1125896
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1125896
Broch of Clickhimin. The freshwater loch of Clickhimin lies three-quarters of a mile SW of Lerwick, discharging through a short outlet into the sea at the Bight of Clickhimin on the W side of Brei Wick. On a promontory attached by a marshy neck of land to its S. shore stands the broch. Before 1874, according to Dryden's account, the site was a low rocky islet, connected to the mainland by a causeway. In that year the level of the water was lowered about 2 ft. 6 in., the islet becoming a peninsula and the causeway being left high and dry.
See RCAHMS 1946, iii, p.64-70, figs. 557-73, for a detailed description.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 21 July 1930 and 4 July 1934.
O.S.6"map, Shetland, 2nd ed.,(1902).
