Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575300
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575300
HP50 5 BROUGH HOLM (‘Broch Holm of Lundawick’)
HP/566059.
A probable broch on Unst occupying almost the whole of an islet off the coast, but with no trace of a causeway to the shore. It is "surrounded at a distance of about 21ft. by a massive defensive wall, probably about 10 ft. thick" and traceable from north-west to east-south-east. "Outside the wall is a ditch about 20 ft. broad, and beyond this a rampart of earth and stones, still 4 ft. to 5 ft. high" [1, 2]. Erosion has removed about two-thirds of the main building and hundreds of tons of stones are reported to have been removed from the site for boat ballast [3].
Sources:1. OS card HP50 NE 3: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1548: 3. Spence 1899, 46-9: 4. Hibbert 1822, 398.
E W MacKie 2002
