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Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575305
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575305
HP50 10 UNDERHOULL
HP/575044 (visited 7/6/63)
This probable broch on Unst stands on the edge of a ridge which slopes down with increasing shallowness to the (Ills. 4.1 (lower) and 4.3). The Commission considered that the broch itself, situated on a mound about 250m from the shore at Lunda Wick, has been almost entirely destroyed and that all that is left is under its own debris. Surface indications suggest that the broch has a diameter of 55 ft. with a wall c. 15 ft. thick [2]. Two concentric ramparts of earth surround the broch, forming a D-shaped enclosure and ending at the edge of the steep slope. A deep and wide ditch is between the banks (Ill. 4.3). Excavations have been carried out on the slope between the broch and the shore and the remains of an extensive settlement revealed [4].
Refs: 1. OS card HP 50 SE 12 (with sketch plan): 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1547, 133 and figs. 658 and 660: 3. Irvine 1865: 4. Small 1966.
NMR photographs: 2P, 1T.
E W MacKie 2002
