Field Visit
Date 26 July 1930
Event ID 1127304
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1127304
Broch, Brough. This structure is today represented only by a rugged grass-grown hillock, in a commanding position, close to the E margin of the public road at the N end of the small township of Brough. Although no characteristic features are discernible, there are slight indications of regularly laid stone-work here and there, particularly in the neighbourhood of the cottage which encroaches on the site. It is reported that the stones from this broch were ‘taken to build the pier at Scalloway’*.
RCAHMS 1946, visited 26 July 1930.
OS 6" map, Shetland, 2nd ed. (1903)
*Arch. Scot., v, p. 182, where the broch is wrongly placed in Tingwall parish.
