Publication Account
Date 2002
Event ID 575336
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575336
HU31 2 LUNABISTER
HU/378164
Probable broch in Dunrossness, originally a large grass-covered mound with traces of masonry [2], in which about 40 ft. of broken wall, 5.5 ft. high and with the usual batter, was found in 1956; the estimated diameter is 60 ft. and outworks are apparent under turf on the south side [3].
Sources: 1. OS card HU 31 NE 6: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1152, 33-4: 3. J. Stewart in Discovery and Excavation, Scotland, 1956, 27.
E W MacKie 2002
