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Note
Date 1980
Event ID 1136017
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Backaskail, Sanday HY 6417 3919 HY63NW 1
Undoubted broch on rocky outcrop above shore, investigated by G Petrie 1867. Site is defended by a flat-bottomed ditch. 40m-long cliff-face section shows walls and floors, thickness of deposit being 2m-3m; subject to sea erosion.
RCAHMS 1980
(Petrie notebook 9, p. 35; plan in NM RS; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p. 40, No. 159; OR 100)
