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Publication Account

Date 2002

Event ID 575372

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/575372

HU35 3 HOULLAND ('Broch of Houlland', 'Tumblin')

HU/34495389

Probable broch in Sandsting. Traces of a circular building remain, with a diameter of about 16.93 m (55 ft. 6 ins). The supposed outer rampart [2] is probably a field wall [1].

In 1998 two small trenches revealed various fragments of walling which seemed to post-date the broch; Iron Age potsherds were also found [3].

Sources: 1. OS card HU 35 SW 3: 2. RCAHMS 1946, vol. 3, no. 1396, 101: 3. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1998, 84-5.

E W MacKie 2002

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