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Field Visit
Date September 1964
Event ID 1156635
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156635
near Bu of Hoy HY 2375 0523 HY20NW 21
A 'raised or artificial mound' noted in 1880 at the clifftop overlooking Burra Sound has been so mutilated by wartime buildings and a silage pit as to be beyond classification; but it seems too insubstantial to represent the remains of a broch.
RCAHMS 1989, visited September 1964.
(Name Book, Orkney, No. 10, p. 51; RCAHMS 1946, ii, p.112, No. 386; OR 1913).
